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Assurance of God’s Promise

35 Thus says the Lord:
    who provides us with the sun to light our day
    and the moon and the stars to shine at night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar,
    and whose name is the Lord of hosts:
36 If this established order were ever to cease
    in my presence, says the Lord,
then the race of Israel would cease forever
    to be a nation before me.
37 Thus says the Lord:
    Only if the heavens above can be measured
    and the foundations of the earth below can be fathomed
will I reject the entire race of Israel
    because of all they have done, says the Lord.

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