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The Book of Comfort: Restoration and the New Covenant (part 2)

Jeremiah 31:21-40

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Chapter 31
21 Set up signposts for yourself; place waymarks for yourself. Set your heart on the highway, the way you went. Return, virgin Israel, return to your cities—these. 22 How long will you turn aside, O backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land: a female shall compass a man. 23 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, God of Israel: They will still say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their captivity: "May the LORD bless you, O dwelling of righteousness, O holy mountain." 24 And Judah and all its cities will dwell in it together, the farmers and those who move about with flocks. 25 For I have satisfied the weary soul, and every soul that is faint I have filled. 26 At this I awoke, and behold, my sleep was pleasant to me. 27 Behold, days are coming, says the LORD, and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humanity and the seed of beast. 28 And it will be just as I have watched over them to uproot and to tear down and to destroy and to annihilate and to harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant—oracle of the LORD. 29 In those days they will no longer say: "Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are blunted." 30 For only a man will die in his iniquity; every human, the one eating the flesh, his teeth will be dulled. 31 Behold, days are coming, utterance of the LORD, and I will cut with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah a new covenant. 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant that they broke, even though I was their master—oracle of the LORD. 33 For this is the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will give my Torah in their midst, and on their heart I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they will be to me people. 34 And they will not teach a man his neighbor or a man his brother anymore, saying, "Know the LORD," for they will all know me, from their smallest to their greatest—declares the LORD—for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, the statute of the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs the sea so that its waves roar, the LORD of Hosts is his name. 36 If these statutes depart from before me, says the LORD, the seed of Israel will also cease to be a nation before me all the days. 37 Thus says the LORD: If they measure the heavens from above and search out the foundations of the earth below, I will also reject all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD. 38 Behold, days are coming, says the LORD, and the city will be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And it went out again, the measuring line opposite it upon the hill of Gareb, and it turned toward Gareb. 40 And all the valley of the carcasses and the ash, and all the fields, to the stream of Kidron, to the corner of the Gate of the Horses eastward—consecrated to the LORD; it shall not be uprooted, and it shall not be destroyed again forever.