Jeremiah 31:31-40

YAHWEH declares: “Look, the days are coming when I will enter into a brand-new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt. They broke that covenant even though I was their husband,” declares YAHWEH. “No, this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel when the time has come,” declares YAHWEH. “I will embed my law into the core of their being and write it on their hearts and minds. Then I will truly be their God, and they will truly be my people. None of them will have to teach their friends or family, saying, ‘Come and know YAHWEH intimately!’ No, from the least to the greatest, they will all know me intimately,” YAHWEH declares, “for I will remove their guilt and wipe their sin from my memory.” “I am YAHWEH All-Powerful. I declare to you: I order the sun to light up the day, the stars and moon to brighten the night. I stir the sea and make the ocean waves roar. My name is YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies. Just as this established order will not pass away, so I will never let Israel cease from being a nation. “I, YAHWEH, have spoken. It is impossible for you to measure the heavens above or to fathom the foundations of the earth below. In the same way, it is impossible for me to reject my people Israel, no matter what they have done,” declares YAHWEH. “Look, the days are coming when the people will rebuild Jerusalem for me,” declares YAHWEH. “They will rebuild it from the northeast Tower of Hananel to the northwest Corner Gate. And the measuring line will stretch out farther to the Gareb Hill, turning then to Goah. And the entire Hinnom Valley, with its bones and ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate eastward, will be consecrated and sacred to YAHWEH. Jerusalem will never be overthrown or destroyed again.”