22 For the sake of his great name,+ Jehovah will not abandon his people,+ for Jehovah has taken it upon himself to make you his people.+

25 “This is what Jehovah says: ‘Just as surely as I have established my covenant regarding the day and the night,+ the laws* of heaven and earth,+ 26 so I will never reject the offspring* of Jacob and of my servant David, so as not to take from his offspring* rulers over the descendants* of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will gather back their captives+ and have pity on them.’”+