Jeremiah 31:27-40 - The New Covenant
27 Jehovah says: The time is coming when I will plant the nations of Israel and Judah with people and animals. 28 I watched over them to uproot them and tear them down, to ruin and hurt them. Now I will watch over them to build them up. I will plant them, says Jehovah. 29 When that time comes people will no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children's teeth are set on edge.'
30 Each person will die for his own sin. Whoever eats sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge.
31 The time is coming, proclaims Jehovah, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah. 33 This is the covenant (agreement) that I will make with Israel after those days, declares Jehovah. I will put my teachings (Law) inside them. I will write those teachings (Law) on their hearts (inner man) (mind) (will) (conscience) (understanding). I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying: 'Know Jehovah.' All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me, declares Jehovah. I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold (remember) their sins against them.
35 Jehovah provides the sun to be a light during the day. He orders the moon and stars to be lights during the night. He stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. His name is Jehovah of Hosts. This is what Jehovah says: 36 Only if this covenant is removed, declares Jehovah, will Israel's descendants stop being a nation in my presence.
37 This is what Jehovah says: 'If the heavens could be measured or the foundations of the earth could be searched, I would reject all of Israel's descendants because of everything that they have done,' declares Jehovah.
38 The time is coming, declares Jehovah, when the city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to Corner Gate. 39 A measuring line will stretch from there straight to the Hill of Gareb, and then it will turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley is filled with its dead bodies and ashes. The entire area to the Kidron Valley, as far as the corner of Horse Gate in the east, will be holy to Jehovah. It will never be uprooted or torn down again.