Jeremiah 33:24 - Exposition

This people; i.e. not Egyptians or Babylonians (as some have supposed), but the people of Judah, regarded as alienated from Jehovah (hence the touch of disparagement), as elsewhere in Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 4:10 , Jeremiah 4:11 ; Jeremiah 5:14 , Jeremiah 5:23 ; Jeremiah 6:19 ; Jeremiah 7:33 , etc.). There were unworthy Jews, who, seeing their nation fallen from its high estate, despaired of its deliverance and regeneration. That they should be no more, etc.; rather, so that they are no more a people— no more an independent people The "two families," of course, are the "two houses of Israel" ( Isaiah 8:14 ), i.e. the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.