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From: Jeremiah 33:14-16

Grounds for hope

[14] “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise
I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. [15] In those days and at
that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall
execute justice and righteousness in the land. [16] In those days Judah will be
saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will
be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’

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Commentary:

33:14-26. These verses, which are not in the Septuagint and which may be a la-
ter addition, are a collection of messianic announcements based on the unchan-
ging nature of the Lord’s promise. He will keep the Davidic dynasty in being
through a descendant of David (vv. 15-16; cf. 23:5-6; 2 Sam 7:12-16) and will en-
sure that there are always Levites to perform the functions of priests (vv. 17-18).
This pact will be as fixed as the laws that govern the universe (vv. 19-26: cf. 33:
2). The “two families” (v. 24) refer to Israel (Jacob) and Judah (David).

The New Testament shows that all the promises in the “Book of Consolation”
find fulfillment in Jesus Christ, son of David (cf. Mt 1:1), the eternal high priest of
the New Covenant (cf. Heb 8:1-13). “God is ever faithful, and he has placed him-
self in our debt, not because he has received anything from us, but through all
the promises he has made to us. In his own eyes, the promises seem to be of
little value; he has put them in writing, a compendium of promises, so that we
will be able to read them, one after another, as they come to pass. As has been
said many times before, the prophetic era is made up of the days in which the
Lord made his promises” (St Augustine, “Enarrationes in Psalmos”, 109, 1).

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Source: “The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries”. Biblical text from the
Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries by members of
the Faculty of Theology, University of Navarre, Spain.

Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, and
by Scepter Publishers in the United States.