Jeremiah 31:23-34

New American Standard Bible 1995

²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I ^(A)restore their ^[a]fortunes,

²⁴ Judah and all its cities will ^(D)dwell together in it, the farmer and they who go about with flocks. ^25 (E)For I satisfy the weary ones and ^[b]refresh everyone who languishes.” ²⁶ At this I ^(F)awoke and looked, and my ^(G)sleep was 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 man and with the seed of beast. ²⁸ As I have ^(I)watched over them to ^(J)pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to ^(K)build and to plant,” declares the Lord.

³⁰ But ^(M)everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be ^[d]set on edge.

³¹ “^(N)Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a ^(O)new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, ³² not like the ^(P)covenant which I made with their fathers in 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 “But ^(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 on their heart I will write it; and ^(U)I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴ They will ^(V)not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man 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 iniquity, and their ^(Y)sin I will remember no more.”