Jeremiah 31:31-40

The New Covenant

31 aBehold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ba new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when cI took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, dthough I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 eFor this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: fI will put my law within them, and I will write it gon their hearts. hAnd I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ ifor they shall all know me, jfrom the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For kI will forgive their iniquity, and lI will remember their sin no more.”

35 Thus says the Lord,
who mgives the sun for light by day
and nthe fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar
othe Lord of hosts is his name:
36 pIf this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
37 Thus says the Lord:
If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
qthen I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,

declares the Lord.”
38 rBehold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord sfrom the Tower of Hananel to tthe Corner Gate. 39 uAnd the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40 vThe whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the wbrook Kidron, to the corner of xthe Horse Gate toward the east, yshall be sacred to the Lord. zIt shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”

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