Psalm 119:97-104

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מ Mem

⁹⁷Oh, how I love your law!^(A)
    I meditate^(B) on it all day long.
⁹⁸Your commands are always with me
    and make me wiser^(C) than my enemies.
⁹⁹I have more insight than all my teachers,
    for I meditate on your statutes.^(D)
¹⁰⁰I have more understanding than the elders,
    for I obey your precepts.^(E)
¹⁰¹I have kept my feet^(F) from every evil path
    so that I might obey your word.^(G)
¹⁰²I have not departed from your laws,^(H)
    for you yourself have taught^(I) me.
¹⁰³How sweet are your words to my taste,
    sweeter than honey^(J) to my mouth!^(K)
¹⁰⁴I gain understanding^(L) from your precepts;
    therefore I hate every wrong path.^(M)

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Jeremiah 31:27-34

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²⁷“The days are coming,”^(A) declares the Lord, “when I will plant^(B) the kingdoms of Israel and Judah with the offspring of people and of animals. ²⁸Just as I watched^(C) over them to uproot^(D) and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster,^(E) so I will watch over them to build and to plant,”^(F) declares the Lord. ²⁹“In those days people will no longer say,

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

³⁰Instead, everyone will die for their own sin;^(I) whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

³¹“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will make a new covenant^(J)
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
³²It will not be like the covenant^(K)
    I made with their ancestors^(L)
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,^(M)
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband^(N) to^[a] them,^[b]”
declares the Lord.
³³“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds^(O)
    and write it on their hearts.^(P)
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.^(Q)
³⁴No longer will they teach^(R) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know^(S) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive^(T) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins^(U) no more.”