Jeremiah 31:23-40 - The Future Prosperity Of God's People

23 For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: It will come thereto, that when I have brought Judah out of captivity, these words shall be heard in the land and in his cities, 'The LORD, which is the fair bridegroom of righteousness, make thee fruitful O thou holy hill!' 24 And there shall dwell Judah, and all her cities, the shepherds and husbandmen: 25 For I shall feed the hungry soul, and refresh all faint hearts."

26 When I heard this, I came again to myself, and mused, like as I had been waked out of a sweet sleep.

27 "Behold, sayeth the LORD, the days come, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with men and with cattle. 28 Yea it shall come thereto, that like as I have gone about in times past to root them out, to scatter them, to break them down, to destroy them and chasten them: Even so will I also go diligently about, to build them up again, and to plant them, sayeth the LORD. 29 Then shall it no more be said, 'The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

30 For every one shall die for his own misdeed, so that who so eateth a sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31 Behold, the days come, sayeth the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 32 not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, sayeth the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And from thenceforth shall no man teach his neighbour or his brother, and say, 'Know the LORD.' But they shall all know me, from the lowest unto the highest, sayeth the LORD. For I will forgive their misdeeds, and will never remember their sins anymore.

35 "Thus sayeth the LORD which gave the sun to be a light for the day, and the moon and stars to shine in the night: which moveth the sea, so that the floods thereof wax fierce: his name is the LORD of Hosts. 36 Like as this ordinance shall never be taken out of my sight, sayeth the LORD: So shall the seed of Israel never cease, but always be a people before me.

37 Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD: like as the heaven above cannot be measured, and as the foundations of the earth beneath may not be sought out; So will I also not cast out the whole seed of Israel, for that they have committed, sayeth the LORD.

38 Behold, the days come, sayeth the LORD, that the city of the LORD shall be enlarged from the tower of Hananel, unto the gate of the corner wall. 39 From thence shall the right measure be taken before her unto the hill top of Gareb, and shall come about Golgotha 40 and the whole valley of the dead carcasses, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron: and from thence unto the corner of the horse gate toward the East, whereas the Sanctuary of the LORD also shall be set. And when it is now builded, and set up of this fashion it shall never be broken, nor cast down anymore."