Jeremiah 31:26–34

²⁶After hearing that, I, Jeremiah, woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very pleasant.

²⁷The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will help the families of Israel and Judah and their children and animals to grow. ²⁸In the past I watched over Israel and Judah, to pull them up and tear them down, to destroy them and bring them disaster. But now I will watch over them to build them up and make them strong,” says the Lord.

²⁹“At that time people will no longer say:

‘The parents have eaten sour grapes,

and that caused the children to grind their teeth from the sour taste.’

³⁰Instead, each person will die for his own sin; the person who eats sour grapes will grind his own teeth.

The New Agreement

³¹“Look, the time is coming,” says the Lord,

“when I will make a new agreement

with the people of Israel

and the people of Judah.

³²It will not be like the agreement

I made with their ancestors

when I took them by the hand

to bring them out of Egypt.

I was a husband to them,

but they broke that agreement,” says the Lord.

³³“This is the agreement I will make

with the people of Israel at that time,” says the Lord:

“I will put my teachings in their minds

and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

³⁴People will no longer have to teach their neighbors and relatives

to know the Lord,

because all people will know me,

from the least to the most important,” says the Lord.

“I will forgive them for the wicked things they did,

and I will not remember their sins anymore.”