the reformation call. They might equally well mean that after the reformation Jeremiah, seeing that it was failing to bite, called upon the people to take seriously that call to reform to which they had paid only lip service. The covenant of 621 B.C. did not, of course, claim to be a new covenant; it claimed to be a renewal of the original covenant between the Lord and Israel as that is described for us in the book of Deuteronomy. The basic purpose of that covenant was to establish a relationship