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29 “In those days they will say no longer, ‘Parents[a] have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge[b].’ 30 But[c] each will die because of his iniquity, everyone[d] who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will be set on edge.[e]

31 Look, the days are coming,” declares[f] Yahweh, “and I will make[g] a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made[h] with their ancestors[i] on the day of my grasping them[j] by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them,” declares[k] Yahweh. 33 “But this is the covenant that I will make[l] with the house of Israel after those days,” declares[m] Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts[n] I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. 34 And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying,[o] ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their smallest[p] and up to their greatest,”[q] declares[r] Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:29 Literally “Fathers”
  2. Jeremiah 31:29 Literally “have become blunt”
  3. Jeremiah 31:30 Literally “But if”
  4. Jeremiah 31:30 Literally “all of the humankind”
  5. Jeremiah 31:30 Literally “become blunt”
  6. Jeremiah 31:31 Literally “a declaration of”
  7. Jeremiah 31:31 Literally “cut”
  8. Jeremiah 31:32 Literally “cut”
  9. Jeremiah 31:32 Or “fathers”
  10. Jeremiah 31:32 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  11. Jeremiah 31:32 Literally “a declaration of”
  12. Jeremiah 31:33 Literally “cut”
  13. Jeremiah 31:33 Literally “a declaration of”
  14. Jeremiah 31:33 Hebrew “heart”
  15. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “to say”
  16. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “small”
  17. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “great”
  18. Jeremiah 31:34 Literally “a declaration of”

29 “In those days they will no longer say,
(A)The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
[a]But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt.’

30 But (B)everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.

31 (C)Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a (D)new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the (E)covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I (F)took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My (G)covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “For (H)this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “(I)I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and (J)I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will (K)not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all (L)know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will (M)forgive their wrongdoing, and their (N)sin I will no longer remember.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:29 I.e., the children suffer for the fathers’ sins