Magazines · 5. — The Corruption of Christendom.

Jeremiah 33 repeats the blessings, looking forward to the day when their Messiah would be with them. "I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel (both) to return … and I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me … In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David: and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land." ("Judgment shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it." Psalm 94:15.) "In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousness. For thus says the Lord, David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel," not merely Judah. "Thus says the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy upon them."