Jeremiah 31:26–34

²⁶At this I ^aawoke and looked, and my ^bsleep was pleasant to me.

A New Covenant

²⁷“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will ^asow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

²⁸“As I have ^awatched over them to ^bpluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to ^cbuild and to plant,” declares the Lord.

²⁹“In those days they will not say again,

‘^aThe fathers have eaten sour grapes,

And the children’s teeth are ¹set on edge.’

³⁰“But ^aeveryone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be ¹set on edge.

³¹“^aBehold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a ^bnew covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

³²not like the ^acovenant which I made with their fathers in the day I ^btook them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My ^ccovenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.

³³“But ^athis is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “^bI will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and ^cI will be their God, and they shall be My people.

³⁴“They will ^anot teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all ^bknow Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will ^cforgive their iniquity, and their ^dsin I will remember no more.”