23. The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah, saying:
24. “Jeremiah, have you heard what the people are saying? They say: ‘The Lord turned away from the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ Now they don’t think of my people as a nation anymore!”
25. This is what the Lord says: “If I had not made my agreement with day and night, and if I had not made the laws for the sky and earth,