This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
Here God opposes the constancy of his faithfulness to their perverse murmurings, of which he had complained; and he again adduces the similitude previously brought forward: “lf, then, I have not fixed my covenant, or if there is no covenant as to the day and the night, — if there are no laws as to heaven and earth, then I shall now cast away the...
Three of God's covenants, that of royalty with David and his seed, that of the priesthood with Aaron and his seed, and that of Peculiarity with Abraham and his seed, seemed to be all broken and lost while the captivity lasted; but it is here promised that, notwithstanding that interruption and discontinuance for a time, they shall all three take place again, and the true...
Commenting on Jeremiah 33:17-26
Thus saith the Lord,.... In answer to the above calumny: if my covenant be not with day and night; that is, if it should not stand; if it should be broken; or there should be no longer a succession of day and night: and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; concerning the course of the sun, moon, and stars, and...