28 Jeremiah 21-36: A Translation(^30) But each person in his iniquity shall die. Every human who eats the sour
grapes, his teeth shall become set on edge.
c) The New Covenant (31:31-34)
31 31 Look, days are coming-oracle of Yahweh-when I will cut with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant,^32 not like the
covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to
bring them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they, they broke,
though I, I was their master-oracle of Yahweh.
(^33) But this is the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel after
those days-oracle of Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts,
and upon their hearts I will write it. And I will be God to them, and they,
they will be a people to me.^34 And they shall not again instruct each per-
son his fellow and each person his brother, saying, 'Know Yahweh,' for
they, all of them, shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of
them-oracle of Yahweh-for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I
will not remember again.
d) Ongoing Creation, Ongoing Covenant (31:35-37)
31 35 Thus said Yahweh
who gives the sun for light by day
statutes of the moon and stars
for light by night
who stirs up the sea so its waves roar
Yahweh of hosts is his name:
(^36) If these statutes depart
from before me-oracle of Yahweh
Then the seed of Israel shall cease
from being a nation before me-all the days.
(^37) Thus said Yahweh:
If the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth explored to the depths
Then I, I will reject all the seed of Israel
because of all that they have done
-oracle of Yahweh.
e) Rebuilt City, Reconsecrated Valley (31:38-40)
31 38 Look, days are coming-oracle of Yahweh-when the city shall be rebuilt
for Yahweh from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.^39 And the measur-
ing line shall go out again, straight over Gareb Hill and turn to Goah.^40 And
all the valley land, the corpses and the ashes, and all the terraces up to the