Jeremiah 31:31–37

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

³⁵This is what the Lord says:

The One who gives the sun for light by day,

the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar ^v—

Yahweh of Hosts is His name:

³⁶If this fixed order departs from My presence—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

then also Israel’s descendants will cease

to be a nation before Me forever. ^w

³⁷This is what the Lord says:

If the heavens above can be measured

and the foundations of the earth below explored,

I will reject all of Israel’s descendants

because of all they have done—

this is the Lord’s declaration.