¹⁸ “You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and fix them as an emblem on your forehead.^{(A) 19} Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up.^{(B) 20} Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,^(C)

⁸ Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem^[a] on your forehead,^{(A) 9} and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.^(B)

A Rebellious People

³ and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.^[a](A)

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.^(A)

Judah’s Sin and Punishment

17 The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars,^(A)