For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said[a]:

‘The days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts may be translated fault and said to the people.

13 By calling this covenant ‘new’, he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

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