29. When that time comes, people will no longer say,‘The parents ate the sour grapes,But the children got the sour taste.’
30. Instead, all those who eat sour grapes will have their own teeth set on edge; and they will all die because of their own sin.”
31. The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
32. It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant.
33. The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
34. None of them will have to teach his fellow-citizen to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
35. The Lord provides the sun for light by day,the moon and the stars to shine at night.He stirs up the sea and makes it roar;his name is the Lord Almighty.
36. He promises that as long as the natural order lasts,so long will Israel be a nation.
37. If one day the sky could be measuredand the foundations of the earth explored,only then would he reject the people of Israelbecause of all they have done.The Lord has spoken.
38. “The time is coming,” says the Lord, “when all Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my city, from Hananel Tower west to the Corner Gate.
39. And the boundary line will continue from there on the west to the hill of Gareb and then round to Goah.
40. The entire valley, where the dead are buried and refuse is thrown, and all the fields above the brook of Kidron as far as the Horse Gate to the east, will be sacred to me. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”