Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 31:29-40

29“In those days, it will no longer be said:

‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

30Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,when I will make a new covenantwith the house of Israeland with the house of Judah.32It will not be like the covenantI made with their fatherswhen I took them by the handto lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke,though I was a husband to them,1”declares the LORD.33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, declares the LORD.I will put My law in their mindsand inscribe it on their hearts.And I will be their God,and they will be My people.34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother,saying, ‘Know the LORD,’because they will all know Me,from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.For I will forgive their iniquitiesand will remember their sins no more.”2

35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

36“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence,declares the LORD,would Israel’s descendants ever ceaseto be a nation before Me.”

37This is what the LORD says:

“Only if the heavens above could be measuredand the foundations of the earth below searched outwould I reject all of Israel’s descendantsbecause of all they have done,”declares the LORD.

38“The days are coming,”3 declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah. 40The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 31:32 Hebrew; LXX for they did not abide in My covenant, and I disregarded them; see also Syriac. ↩
2. Jeremiah 31:34 Cited in Hebrews 8:8–12 and Hebrews 10:16–17 ↩
3. Jeremiah 31:38 Literally Behold, the days; alternate MT reading Behold, the days are coming ↩

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