Jeremiah 31:27-40

English Standard Version

²⁷^(A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when ^(B)I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with ^(C)the seed of man and the seed of beast. ²⁸And it shall come to pass that ^(D)as I have watched over them ^(E)to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, ^(F)so I will watch over them ^(G)to build and to plant, declares the Lord. ²⁹In those days they shall no longer say:

^(H)“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge.’

³⁰^(I)But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

The New Covenant

³¹^(J)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ^(K)a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, ³²not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when ^(L)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, ^(M)though I was their husband, declares the Lord. ³³^(N)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: ^(O)I will put my law within them, and I will write it ^(P)on their hearts. ^(Q)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ ^(R)for they shall all know me, ^(S)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For ^(T)I will forgive their iniquity, and ^(U)I will remember their sin no more.”

³⁵Thus says the Lord,
who ^(V)gives the sun for light by day
    and ^(W)the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    ^(X)the Lord of hosts is his name:
³⁶^(Y)“If this fixed order departs
    from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
    from being a nation before me forever.”

³⁷Thus says the Lord:
“If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
^(Z)then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”

³⁸^(AA)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord ^(AB)from the Tower of Hananel to ^(AC)the Corner Gate. ³⁹^(AD)And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. ⁴⁰^(AE)The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the ^(AF)brook Kidron, to the corner of ^(AG)the Horse Gate toward the east, ^(AH)shall be sacred to the Lord. ^(AI)It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”