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Jeremiah 31:22-33 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

22. How long will you be absorbed in delights, O wandering daughter? For the Lord has created something new upon the earth: a woman will encompass a man."

23. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Still they will speak this word in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I will convert their captivity: 'May the Lord bless you, the beauty of justice, the holy mountain.'

24. And they will live in it: Judah together with all its cities, the farmer and those who drive the flocks.

25. For I have inebriated the weary soul, and I have satisfied every hungry soul.

26. Over this, I was awakened, as if from a deep sleep. And I saw, and my sleep became sweet to me.

27. Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the offspring of men and with the offspring of cattle.

28. And just as I have watched over them, so that I may root up, and tear down, and scatter, and destroy, and afflict, so will I watch over them, so that I may build and plant them, says the Lord.

29. In those days, they will no longer say: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'

30. Instead, each one will die for his own iniquity. Each man who will have eaten a bitter grape, his own teeth will be affected.

31. Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will form a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

32. not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, so as to lead them away from the land of Egypt, the covenant which they nullified, though I was the ruler over them, says the Lord.

33. But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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