basis for words of doom as well as of hope. He, perhaps more clearly than anyone else of his time, recognized the inevitability of judgment for Judah because they had broken covenant with God (Jer 11:1–14). Yet he was also filled with hopeful expectations for the future of Judah because of the covenant (Jer 31:1–14). Jeremiah envisioned the day when a new covenant would be established between God and his people (Jer 31:31–34). The prayer and vision of Dan 9 captures some of that same hopeful future