Jeremiah 31:31–37

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.”

³⁵Thus says the Lord,

^dWho gives the sun for a light by day,

The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,

Who disturbs ^ethe sea,

And its waves roar

^f(The Lord of hosts is His name):

³⁶“If ^gthose ordinances depart

From before Me, says the Lord,

Then the seed of Israel shall also cease

From being a nation before Me forever.”

³⁷Thus says the Lord:

^h“If heaven above can be measured,

And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,

I will also ⁱcast off all the seed of Israel

For all that they have done, says the Lord.