²⁷The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.^* ²⁸And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.^* ²⁹In those days they shall no longer say:

“The parents have eaten sour grapes,

and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”^*

³⁰But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.^*

A New Covenant

³¹The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.^* ³²It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.^* ³³But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.^* ³⁴No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.^*

Read in Logos

Jeremiah 31:33: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Cross references

*Ezek 36:9–11; Hos 2:23
*Jer 1:10; 44:27
*Ezek 18:2
*Deut 24:16; Ezek 18:4, 20; Gal 6:5, 7
*Jer 32:40; Ezek 37:26; Heb 8:8–12
*Ex 19:5; 24:6–8; Deut 1:31; Jer 3:14; 11:7, 8
*Jer 24:7; 32:38, 40
*Isa 54:13; Mic 7:18; Jn 6:45; Rom 11:27; 1 Thess 4:9