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31.28 that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down, and to overthrow and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith the.


 * In those days they shall say no more:
 * 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
 * And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Behold, the days come, saith the, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; forasmuch as they broke My covenant, although I was a lord over them, saith the. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the, I will put My law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people; and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: 'Know the '; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the ; for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.


 * Thus saith the ,
 * Who giveth the sun for a light by day,
 * And the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
 * Who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar,
 * The of hosts is His name:
 * If these ordinances depart from before Me,
 * Saith the ,
 * Then the seed of Israel also shall cease
 * From being a nation before Me for ever.


 * Thus saith the :
 * If heaven above can be measured,
 * And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
 * Then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel
 * For all that they have done, saith the.

Behold, the days come, saith the, that the city shall be built to the from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner. And the measuring line shall yet go out straight forward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah. And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the ; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house. For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying: 'Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say: Thus saith the : Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; and