Jeremiah 31:31-32:8

English Standard Version

The New Covenant

³¹^(A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ^(B)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 ^(C)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, ^(D)though I was their husband, declares the Lord. ³³^(E)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: ^(F)I will put my law within them, and I will write it ^(G)on their hearts. ^(H)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,’ ^(I)for they shall all know me, ^(J)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For ^(K)I will forgive their iniquity, and ^(L)I will remember their sin no more.”

³⁵Thus says the Lord,
who ^(M)gives the sun for light by day
    and ^(N)the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    ^(O)the Lord of hosts is his name:
³⁶^(P)“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,
^(Q)then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”

³⁸^(R)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord ^(S)from the Tower of Hananel to ^(T)the Corner Gate. ³⁹^(U)And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. ⁴⁰^(V)The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the ^(W)brook Kidron, to the corner of ^(X)the Horse Gate toward the east, ^(Y)shall be sacred to the Lord. ^(Z)It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”

Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege

32 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord ^(AA)in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, ^(AB)which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. ²At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet ^(AC)was shut up in ^(AD)the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah. ³For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(AE)Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it; ⁴^(AF)Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, ^(AG)but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye. ⁵And ^(AH)he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord. ^(AI)Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”

⁶Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ^(AJ)‘Buy my field that is at ^(AK)Anathoth, ^(AL)for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’ ⁸Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in ^(AM)the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at ^(AN)Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.