Through My Bible Yr 02 – April 21
Jeremiah 31:27-40
Jeremiah 31
27Ā Look, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. 28Ā Just as I have watched over them to uproot and to tear down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord.
29Ā In those days they will no longer say,
āThe fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the childrenās teeth are set on edge.ā
30Ā But everyone will die for his own guilt.
Everyone who eats sour grapesā
his own teeth will be set on edge.
The New Covenant
31Ā Yes, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32Ā It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers,
when I took them by the hand
and led them out of the land of Egypt.
They broke that covenant of mine,
although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord.
33Ā But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā after those days,
declares the Lord.
I will put my law [1] in their minds,
and I will write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34Ā No longer will each one teach his neighbor,
or each one teach his brother, saying, āKnow the Lord,ā
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord,
for I will forgive their guilt,
and I will remember their sins no more.
35Ā This is what the Lord says,
the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day,
who regulates the moon and stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar,
whose name is the Lord of Armies:
36Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Only if these ordinances could vanish from my sight,
Ā Ā Ā Ā only then could the seed of Israel cease to be a nation before me,
Ā Ā Ā Ā declares the Lord.
37Ā This is what the Lord says:
Ā Ā Ā Ā Only if someone could measure what is above the sky,
Ā Ā Ā Ā only if someone could explore what is below the foundations
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā of the earth,
Ā Ā Ā Ā only then would I reject all the seed of Israel
Ā Ā Ā Ā for all that they have done, declares the Lord.
38Ā Look, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city will be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39Ā The measuring line will stretch from there straight out to the Hill of Gareb and turn toward Goah. 40Ā The whole valley with the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields out to the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holy to the Lord. It will not be uprooted or torn down ever again.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:33 The term law here refers to the whole word of God. As verse 34 demonstrates, here the term law does not refer to the natural knowledge of the law written in our hearts, but rather to our knowledge of the gospel.
The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage VersionĀ®, EHVĀ®, Ā© 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.
