Jeremiah 31:26–34

²⁶At this I awoke and looked,

and my sleep was pleasant to me.

The New Covenant

²⁷“Look, the days are coming,” declares^r Yahweh, “and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals.^{s 28}And then^t as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares^u Yahweh. ²⁹“In those days they will say no longer, ‘Parents^v have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge^w.’ ³⁰But^x each will die because of his iniquity, everyone^y who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will be set on edge.^z

³¹Look, the days are coming,” declares^a Yahweh, “and I will make^b a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, ³²not like the covenant that I made^c with their ancestors^d on the day of my grasping them^e by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them,” declares^f Yahweh. ³³“But this is the covenant that I will make^g with the house of Israel after those days,” declares^h Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their heartsⁱ I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. ³⁴And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying,^j ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their smallest^k and up to their greatest,”^l declares^m Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.”