TSK · Isaiah 55:3

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the LORD.

Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O Sovereign LORD, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”

O LORD God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”

I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.

Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.

My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD.

But they will be subject to the LORD their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.

“I, the LORD, make the following promise:‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

Then Jeremiah answered,“You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the LORD by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared.

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

“‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.

“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way:‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

Benediction and Conclusion Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus,