Jeremiah 31:23-40

New American Standard Bible

²³This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I ^(A)restore their fortunes,

‘The Lord bless you, O ^(B)place of righteousness,
O ^(C)holy hill!’

²⁴Judah and all its cities will ^(D)live together in it, the farmers and those who travel with flocks. ²⁵^(E)For I give plenty of water to the weary ones, and ^[a]refresh everyone who languishes.” ²⁶At this I ^(F)awoke and looked, and my ^(G)sleep had been pleasant to me.

A New Covenant

²⁷“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will ^(H)sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of mankind and the seed of animals. ²⁸And just as I have ^(I)watched over them to ^(J)uproot them, tear them down, ruin, destroy, and bring disaster on them, so I will watch over them to ^(K)build and to plant them,” declares the Lord.

²⁹“In those days they will no longer say,
‘^(L)The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
^[b]But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt.’

³⁰But ^(M)everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.

³¹“^(N)Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a ^(O)new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, ³²not like the ^(P)covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I ^(Q)took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My ^(R)covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. ³³“For ^(S)this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “^(T)I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and ^(U)I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴They will ^(V)not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all ^(W)know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will ^(X)forgive their wrongdoing, and their ^(Y)sin I will no longer remember.”

³⁵This is what the Lord says,
He who ^(Z)gives the sun for light by day
And the ^[c]fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
Who ^(AA)stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
^(AB)The Lord of armies is His name:
³⁶“^(AC)If ^[d]this fixed order departs
From Me,” declares the Lord,
“Then the descendants of Israel also will ^(AD)cease
To be a nation before Me ^[e]forever.”
³⁷This is what the Lord says:
“^(AE)If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also ^(AF)reject all the descendants of Israel
For everything that they have done,” declares the Lord.

³⁸“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the ^(AG)city will be rebuilt for the Lord from the ^(AH)Tower of Hananel to the ^(AI)Corner Gate. ³⁹The ^(AJ)measuring line will go out farther straight ahead, to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah. ⁴⁰And ^(AK)the entire valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook ^(AL)Kidron to the corner of the ^(AM)Horse Gate toward the east, shall be ^(AN)holy to the Lord; it will not be uprooted or overthrown ever again.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 31:25 Lit fill
Jeremiah 31:29 I.e., the children suffer for the fathers’ sins
Jeremiah 31:35 Lit statutes
Jeremiah 31:36 Lit these statutes
Jeremiah 31:36 Lit all the days

Romans 11

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Israel Has Not Been Rejected

11 I say then, God has not ^(A)rejected His people, has He? ^[a]^(B)Far from it! For ^(C)I too am an Israelite, ^[b]a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ²God ^(D)has not rejected His people whom He ^(E)foreknew. ^(F)Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? ³“Lord, ^(G)they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.” ⁴But what ^[c]is the divine response to him? “^(H)I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time ^(I)a remnant according to God’s ^[d]gracious choice. ⁶But ^(J)if it is by grace, it is no longer ^[e]on the basis of works, since otherwise grace is no longer grace.

⁷What then? What ^(K)Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but ^[f]those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were ^(L)hardened; ⁸just as it is written:

“^(M)God gave them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,
Down to this very day.”

⁹And David says,

“^(N)May their table become a snare and a trap,
And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
¹⁰^(O)May their eyes be darkened to see not,
And bend their backs continually.”

¹¹^(P)I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? ^[g]^(Q)Far from it! But by their wrongdoing ^(R)salvation has come to the Gentiles, to ^(S)make them jealous. ¹²Now if their wrongdoing proves to be riches for the world, and their failure, riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their ^[h]^(T)fulfillment be! ¹³But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Therefore insofar as ^(U)I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry ¹⁴if somehow I may ^(V)move ^(W)my ^[i]own people to jealousy and ^(X)save some of them. ¹⁵For if their rejection proves to be the ^(Y)reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but ^(Z)life from the dead? ¹⁶If the ^(AA)first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are as well.

¹⁷But if some of the ^(AB)branches were broken off, and ^(AC)you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the ^[j]rich root of the olive tree, ¹⁸do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that ^(AD)it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹^(AE)You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you ^(AF)stand by your faith. ^(AG)Do not be conceited, but fear; ²¹for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. ²²See then the kindness and severity of God: to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s ^(AH)kindness, ^(AI)if you continue in His kindness; for otherwise you too ^(AJ)will be cut off. ²³And they also, ^(AK)if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵For ^(AL)I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this ^(AM)mystery—so that you will not be ^(AN)wise in your own estimation—that a partial ^(AO)hardening has happened to Israel until the ^(AP)fullness of the Gentiles has come in; ²⁶and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written:

“^(AQ)The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
²⁷“^(AR)This is ^[k]My covenant with them,
^(AS)When I take away their sins.”

²⁸In relation to the gospel they are ^(AT)enemies on your account, but in relation to God’s choice they are beloved ^(AU)on account of the fathers; ²⁹for the gifts and the ^(AV)calling of God ^(AW)are irrevocable. ³⁰For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience, ³¹so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy. ³²For ^(AX)God has shut up all in disobedience, so that He may show mercy to all.

³³Oh, the depth of ^(AY)the riches, ^[l]both of the ^(AZ)wisdom and knowledge of God! ^(BA)How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! ³⁴For ^(BB)who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? ³⁵Or ^(BC)who has first given to Him, ^[m]that it would be paid back to him? ³⁶For ^(BD)from Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things. ^(BE)To Him be the glory ^[n]forever. Amen.