Jeremiah 31:23-40 - The Future Prosperity Of God's People
23 Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Yet again they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall bring again their captivity: LORD bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of 24 And Judah and all the cities thereof shall dwell in there together, the husbandmen, and those who go about with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul I have replenished.
26 Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.
27 Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says LORD. 29 In those days they shall no more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the son's teeth are set on edge.
30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, {because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded (LXX/NT)} them, says LORD 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my law{s (LXX/NT)} in their inward parts, and I will write {them (LXX/NT)} in their hearts. And I will be their God, and th 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
35 Thus says LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar. LORD of hosts is his name. 36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37 Thus says LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, says LORD, that the city shall be built to LORD from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. 39 And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields, to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to LORD. It shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever