Jeremiah 31:31-40

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.”