Jeremiah 33:12

“I, the Lord who rules over all, say: ¹  ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

Isa 65:10; Jer 17:26; Jer 31:24; Jer 32:43; Jer 32:44; Jer 36:29; Jer 50:19,20; Jer 51:62; Eze 34:12-14; Eze 36:8-11; Ob 1:19,20; Zep 2:6,7

¹ tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies.” For the explanation for the first person introduction see the translator’s notes on 33:2, 10. Verses 4, 10, 12 introduce three oracles, all under the answer to the Lord’s promise to Jeremiah to show him “great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.”