31 ^q“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ^ra new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I ^smade with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their ^thusband, declares the Lord. 33 For ^uthis is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will ^vput my law ^wwithin them, and I will write it on their hearts. And ^xI will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ^y‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will ^zforgive their iniquity, and ^aI will ^bremember their sin no more.”

36 “Now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’: 37 Behold, I will ⁿgather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. 38 And ^othey shall be my people, and I will be their God. 39 ^pI will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, ^qfor their own good and the good of their children after them. 40 I will make with them an ^reverlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will ^sput the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. 41 I will ^trejoice in doing them good, and I will ^uplant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

42 “For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. 43 Fields shall be bought in this land ^vof which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ 44 Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the ^wShephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the Lord.”