Jeremiah 31:26–34

²⁶After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was ^psweet to me.

²⁷“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that ^qI will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. ²⁸And it shall come to pass, that as I have ^rwatched over them ^sto pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them ^tto build and to plant, says the Lord. ^29uIn those days they shall say no more:

‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

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

^30vBut every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

A New Covenant

³¹“Behold, the ^wdays are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—³²not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that ^xI took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, ⁸though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. ^33yBut this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: ^zI will put My law in their minds, and write it on their ⁹hearts; ^aand I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for ^bthey all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For ^cI will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”