Jeremiah 31:26–34

²⁶At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

²⁷“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will sow the house of Israel^q and the house of Judah with the seed of people and the seed of animals. ²⁸Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster,^r so will I watch over them to build and to plant them”^s —this is the Lord’s declaration. ²⁹“In those days, it will never again be said,

‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’^t

³⁰Rather, each will die for his own iniquity.^u Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.

THE NEW COVENANT

³¹“Look, the days are coming”^v —this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant^w with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ³²This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—my covenant that they broke even though I am their master”^Fx—the Lord’s declaration. ³³“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’^a for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”^b —this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity^c and never again remember their sin.