Jeremiah 31:26–34

²⁶At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant. 

²⁷“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will plant the nations of Israel and Judah with people and animals. ²⁸Once I watched over them to uproot them, to tear them down, and to wreck, ruin, and hurt them. Now I will watch over them to build them up and to plant them,” declares the Lord. ²⁹“When those days come, people will no longer say, ‘Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children’s teeth are set on edge.’ ³⁰But each person will die for his own sin. Whoever eats sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge. 

The New Promise

³¹“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new promise^ato Israel and Judah. ³²It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. ³³“But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” declares the Lord, “because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”