Jeremiah 23:5-7

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The Good “Branch”

⁵This message is from the Lord:
“The time is coming,
    when I will raise up a good ‘branch’ from David’s family.
He will be a king who will rule in a wise way.
    He will do what is fair and right in the land.
⁶When he rules, Judah will be saved,
    and Israel will live in safety.
This will be his name:
    The Lord Makes Things Right for Us.^[a]

⁷“So the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when people will not make a promise by saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, the one who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt ….’

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 23:6 The Lord Makes Things Right for Us This is a wordplay. In Hebrew this is like the name Zedekiah, the king of Judah at the time this prophecy was probably given. But Jeremiah is talking about another king.