24. Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
25. For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
26. On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
27. “Behold, the days come,” says the Lord, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
28. It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the Lord.
29. “In those days they will say no more,“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30. But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
31. “Behold, the days come,” says the Lord,“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,and with the house of Judah:
32. not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;which covenant of mine they broke,although I was a husband to them,” says the Lord.
33. “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”says the Lord:I will put my law in their inward parts,and I will write it in their heart.I will be their God,and they shall be my people.
34. They will no longer each teach his neighbour,and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord;’for they will all know me,from their least to their greatest,” says the Lord:“for I will forgive their iniquity,and I will remember their sin no more.”
35. the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day,and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar;the Lord of Hosts is his name, says:
36. “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the Lord,“then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
37. the Lord says: “If heaven above can be measured,and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says the Lord.
38. “Behold, the days come,” says the Lord, “that the city will be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
39. The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn towards Goah.
40. The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate towards the east, will be holy to the Lord. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”