29. ‘In those days people will no longer say,“The parents have eaten sour grapes,and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
30. Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes – their own teeth will be set on edge.
31. ‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord,‘when I will make a new covenantwith the people of Israeland with the people of Judah.
32. It will not be like the covenantI made with their ancestorswhen I took them by the handto lead them out of Egypt,because they broke my covenant,though I was a husband to them,’declares the Lord.
33. ‘This is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israelafter that time,’ declares the Lord.‘I will put my law in their mindsand write it on their hearts.I will be their God,and they will be my people.
34. No longer will they teach their neighbour,or say to one another, “Know the Lord,”because they will all know me,from the least of them to the greatest,’declares the Lord.‘For I will forgive their wickednessand will remember their sins no more.’
35. This is what the Lord says,he who appoints the sunto shine by day,who decrees the moon and starsto shine by night,who stirs up the seaso that its waves roar –the Lord Almighty is his name: