Jeremiah 31:26–34

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

²⁷“The days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will sow the house of Israel ^kand the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. ²⁸Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, ^lso will I be attentive to build and to plant them,” ^msays the Lord. 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. ⁿ

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

The New Covenant

³¹“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant ^pwith the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ³²This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them” ^q—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,’ ^rfor they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them” ^s—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing ^tand never again remember their sin.” ^u