Jeremiah 31:31-40

New International Version

³¹“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will make a new covenant^(A)
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
³²It will not be like the covenant^(B)
    I made with their ancestors^(C)
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,^(D)
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband^(E) to^[a] them,^[b]”
declares the Lord.
³³“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds^(F)
    and write it on their hearts.^(G)
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.^(H)
³⁴No longer will they teach^(I) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know^(J) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive^(K) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins^(L) no more.”

³⁵This is what the Lord says,

he who appoints^(M) the sun
    to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
    to shine by night,^(N)
who stirs up the sea^(O)
    so that its waves roar^(P)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name:^(Q)
³⁶“Only if these decrees^(R) vanish from my sight,”
    declares the Lord,
“will Israel^(S) ever cease
    being a nation before me.”

³⁷This is what the Lord says:

“Only if the heavens above can be measured^(T)
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject^(U) all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the Lord.

³⁸“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt^(V) for me from the Tower of Hananel^(W) to the Corner Gate.^(X) ³⁹The measuring line^(Y) will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. ⁴⁰The whole valley^(Z) where dead bodies^(AA) and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley^(AB) on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate,^(AC) will be holy^(AD) to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”