Jeremiah 31:35-37

International Children’s Bible

“The Lord makes the sun shine in the day.
    And he makes the moon and stars shine at night.
    He stirs up the sea so that its waves crash on the shore.
    The Lord of heaven’s armies is his name.
³⁶ “Only if these laws should ever fail,”
    says the Lord,
“will Israel’s descendants stop
    being a nation before me.”

“There’s only one way I will reject all the descendants of Israel.
    That is if people can measure the sky above.
    It is if they can learn the secrets of the earth below.
Then I will reject them because of what they have done,” says the Lord.