Jeremiah 31

The New Covenant

31 "Look, the days are coming"  * 31:31–34 Heb 8:8–12; 10:16–17  — this is the Lord’s declaration — "when I will make a new covenant  * 31:31 Ezk 37:26; Hs 2:18; Lk 22:20; 1Co 11:25; 2Co 3:6; Heb 9:15; 12:24 with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant that they broke even though I am their master"  * 31:32 Or husband,* 31:32 Is 54:4; 62:4; Mal 2:11  — the Lord’s declaration. 33 "Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days" — the Lord’s declaration. "I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’  * 31:34 Jdg 2:10; 1Sm 3:7; Hs 2:20 for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them"  * 31:34 Est 1:20; Jr 6:13; 8:10; 42:1,8; 44:12  — this is the Lord’s declaration. "For I will forgive their iniquity  * 31:34 Nm 14:19; Ps 103:3; Jr 36:3 and never again remember their sin.