Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness. For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices." And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: "This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne. As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me."
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
Significance
Jeremiah 33:14-22 explicitly refers back to the Branch oracle of 23:5-6, declaring "I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken" concerning the "righteous Branch" (צֶמַח צְדָקָה, tsemach tsedaqah — varying 23:5's צֶמַח צַדִּיק, tsemach tsaddiq) who will "administer justice and righteousness." The earlier oracle (23:5-6) introduces the Branch as a Davidic king named "The LORD Our Righteousness"; the later passage (33:14-22) expands this by pairing the Davidic Branch with a perpetual Levitical priesthood and grounding both institutions in the cosmic order of day and night. This progressive elaboration within Jeremiah's own corpus demonstrates how the prophet develops his messianic theology: from a royal figure (ch. 23) to a royal-priestly establishment guaranteed by creation's permanence (ch. 33).
