Jeremiah 31:27-40

New American Standard Bible

A New Covenant

²⁷“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will ^(A)sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of mankind and the seed of animals. ²⁸And just as I have ^(B)watched over them to ^(C)uproot them, tear them down, ruin, destroy, and bring disaster on them, so I will watch over them to ^(D)build and to plant them,” declares the Lord.

²⁹“In those days they will no longer say,
‘^(E)The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
^[a]But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt.’

³⁰But ^(F)everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.

³¹“^(G)Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a ^(H)new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, ³²not like the ^(I)covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I ^(J)took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My ^(K)covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. ³³“For ^(L)this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “^(M)I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and ^(N)I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴They will ^(O)not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all ^(P)know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will ^(Q)forgive their wrongdoing, and their ^(R)sin I will no longer remember.”

³⁵This is what the Lord says,
He who ^(S)gives the sun for light by day
And the ^[b]fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
Who ^(T)stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
^(U)The Lord of armies is His name:
³⁶“^(V)If ^[c]this fixed order departs
From Me,” declares the Lord,
“Then the descendants of Israel also will ^(W)cease
To be a nation before Me ^[d]forever.”
³⁷This is what the Lord says:
“^(X)If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also ^(Y)reject all the descendants of Israel
For everything that they have done,” declares the Lord.

³⁸“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the ^(Z)city will be rebuilt for the Lord from the ^(AA)Tower of Hananel to the ^(AB)Corner Gate. ³⁹The ^(AC)measuring line will go out farther straight ahead, to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah. ⁴⁰And ^(AD)the entire valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook ^(AE)Kidron to the corner of the ^(AF)Horse Gate toward the east, shall be ^(AG)holy to the Lord; it will not be uprooted or overthrown ever again.”