Jeremiah 31:31–37

³¹“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,

“when I will make a new covenant^z

with the people of Israel

and with the people of Judah.

³²It will not be like the covenant^a

I made with their ancestors^b

when I took them by the hand

to lead them out of Egypt,^c

because they broke my covenant,

though I was a husband^d to^d them,^e”

declares the Lord.

³³“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel

after that time,” declares the Lord.

“I will put my law in their minds^e

and write it on their hearts.^f

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.^g

³⁴No longer will they teach^h their neighbor,

or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’

because they will all knowⁱ me,

from the least of them to the greatest,”

declares the Lord.

“For I will forgive^j their wickedness

and will remember their sins^k no more.”

³⁵This is what the Lord says,

he who appoints^l the sun

to shine by day,

who decrees the moon and stars

to shine by night,^m

who stirs up the seaⁿ

so that its waves roar^o—

the Lord Almighty is his name:^p

³⁶“Only if these decrees^q vanish from my sight,”

declares the Lord,

“will Israel^r ever cease

being a nation before me.”

³⁷This is what the Lord says:

“Only if the heavens above can be measured^s

and the foundations of the earth below be searched out

will I reject^t all the descendants of Israel

because of all they have done,”

declares the Lord.