Jeremiah 31:31–37

^31*The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. ^32*It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant. ^33*The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ^34*None of them will have to teach his fellow-citizen to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

³⁵The Lord provides the sun for light by day,

the moon and the stars to shine at night.

He stirs up the sea and makes it roar;

his name is the Lord Almighty.

³⁶He promises that as long as the natural order lasts,

so long will Israel be a nation.

³⁷If one day the sky could be measured

and the foundations of the earth explored,

only then would he reject the people of Israel

because of all they have done.

The Lord has spoken.