Jeremiah 31:20-34

English Standard Version

²⁰^(A)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    ^(B)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
^(C)Therefore my heart^[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

²¹^(D)“Set up road markers for yourself;
    make yourself guideposts;
^(E)consider well the highway,
    ^(F)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
    return to these your cities.
²²^(G)How long will you waver,
    ^(H)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
    a woman encircles a man.”

²³Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, ^(I)when I restore their fortunes:

^(J)“‘The Lord bless you, ^(K)O habitation of righteousness,
^(L)O holy hill!’

²⁴^(M)And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and ^(N)the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. ²⁵For I will ^(O)satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

²⁶At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

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

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

³⁰^(X)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^(Y)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ^(Z)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 ^(AA)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, ^(AB)though I was their husband, declares the Lord. ³³^(AC)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: ^(AD)I will put my law within them, and I will write it ^(AE)on their hearts. ^(AF)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,’ ^(AG)for they shall all know me, ^(AH)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For ^(AI)I will forgive their iniquity, and ^(AJ)I will remember their sin no more.”