22. You are an unfaithful daughter.How long will you wander before you come home?The Lord has made something new happen in the land:A woman will go seeking a man.”
23. The Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: “I will again do good things for the people of Judah. At that time the people in the land of Judah and its towns will again use these words: ‘May the Lord bless you, home of what is good, holy mountain.’
24. People in all the towns of Judah will live together in peace. Farmers and those who move around with their flocks will live together in peace.
25. I will give rest and strength to those who are weak and tired.”
26. After hearing that, I, Jeremiah, woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very pleasant.
27. The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will help the families of Israel and Judah and their children and animals to grow.
28. In the past I watched over Israel and Judah, to pull them up and tear them down, to destroy them and bring them disaster. But now I will watch over them to build them up and make them strong,” says the Lord.
29. “At that time people will no longer say:‘The parents have eaten sour grapes,and that caused the children to grind their teeth from the sour taste.’
30. Instead, each person will die for his own sin; the person who eats sour grapes will grind his own teeth.
31. “Look, the time is coming,” says the Lord,“when I will make a new agreementwith the people of Israeland the people of Judah.
32. It will not be like the agreementI made with their ancestorswhen I took them by the handto bring them out of Egypt.I was a husband to them,but they broke that agreement,” says the Lord.