UBF Daily Bread

GOD’S NEW COVENANT

Passage: Jeremiah 31:23~40

Key verse: 31

²³This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity,^[a]^(A) the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The Lord bless^(B) you, you prosperous city,^(C) you sacred mountain.’^(D) ²⁴People will live^(E) together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks.^(F) ²⁵I will refresh the weary^(G) and satisfy the faint.”^(H)

²⁶At this I awoke^(I) and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.

²⁷“The days are coming,”^(J) declares the Lord, “when I will plant^(K) the kingdoms of Israel and Judah with the offspring of people and of animals. ²⁸Just as I watched^(L) over them to uproot^(M) and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster,^(N) so I will watch over them to build and to plant,”^(O) declares the Lord. ²⁹“In those days people will no longer say,

‘The parents^(P) have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’^(Q)

³⁰Instead, everyone will die for their own sin;^(R) whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

³¹“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will make a new covenant^(S)
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
³²It will not be like the covenant^(T)
    I made with their ancestors^(U)
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,^(V)
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband^(W) to^[b] them,^[c]”
declares the Lord.
³³“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds^(X)
    and write it on their hearts.^(Y)
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.^(Z)
³⁴No longer will they teach^(AA) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know^(AB) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive^(AC) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins^(AD) no more.”

³⁵This is what the Lord says,

he who appoints^(AE) the sun
    to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
    to shine by night,^(AF)
who stirs up the sea^(AG)
    so that its waves roar^(AH)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name:^(AI)
³⁶“Only if these decrees^(AJ) vanish from my sight,”
    declares the Lord,
“will Israel^(AK) ever cease
    being a nation before me.”

³⁷This is what the Lord says:

“Only if the heavens above can be measured^(AL)
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject^(AM) all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the Lord.

³⁸“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt^(AN) for me from the Tower of Hananel^(AO) to the Corner Gate.^(AP) ³⁹The measuring line^(AQ) will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. ⁴⁰The whole valley^(AR) where dead bodies^(AS) and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley^(AT) on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate,^(AU) will be holy^(AV) to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 31:23 Or I restore their fortunes
Jeremiah 31:32 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac / and I turned away from
Jeremiah 31:32 Or was their master

Cross references

Jeremiah 31:23 : S Jer 30:18
Jeremiah 31:23 : S Ge 28:3; S Nu 6:24
Jeremiah 31:23 : S Isa 1:26
Jeremiah 31:23 : S Ps 48:1; S Isa 2:2
Jeremiah 31:24 : S Jer 30:18; Zec 8:4-8
Jeremiah 31:24 : S ver 12
Jeremiah 31:25 : S Isa 40:29
Jeremiah 31:25 : Jn 4:14
Jeremiah 31:26 : Zec 4:1
Jeremiah 31:27 : S Jer 16:14
Jeremiah 31:27 : Hos 2:23
Jeremiah 31:28 : S Job 29:2
Jeremiah 31:28 : S Dt 29:28
Jeremiah 31:28 : S Jer 18:8
Jeremiah 31:28 : S Dt 28:63; S 30:9; S Jer 1:10; Eze 36:10-11; Am 9:14
Jeremiah 31:29 : S Ge 9:25; Dt 24:16; La 5:7
Jeremiah 31:29 : Eze 18:2
Jeremiah 31:30 : S 2Ki 14:6; S Isa 3:11; Gal 6:7
Jeremiah 31:31 : S Dt 29:14; S Isa 42:6; S 54:10; S Lk 22:20; Heb 8:8-12*; 10:16-17
Jeremiah 31:32 : S Ex 24:8
Jeremiah 31:32 : Dt 5:3
Jeremiah 31:32 : Jer 11:4
Jeremiah 31:32 : S Isa 54:5
Jeremiah 31:33 : S Ex 4:15
Jeremiah 31:33 : S Dt 6:6; S 2Co 3:3
Jeremiah 31:33 : S Jer 11:4; Heb 10:16
Jeremiah 31:34 : 1Jn 2:27
Jeremiah 31:34 : S Isa 11:9; S Jn 6:45
Jeremiah 31:34 : Ps 85:2; 130:4; Jer 33:8; 50:20
Jeremiah 31:34 : S Job 7:21; S Isa 38:17; Mic 7:19; Heb 10:17*
Jeremiah 31:35 : Ps 136:7-9
Jeremiah 31:35 : S Ge 1:16
Jeremiah 31:35 : S Ex 14:21
Jeremiah 31:35 : S Ps 93:3
Jeremiah 31:35 : S Jer 10:16
Jeremiah 31:36 : S Job 38:33; Jer 33:20-26
Jeremiah 31:36 : Ps 89:36-37
Jeremiah 31:37 : S Job 38:5; Jer 33:22
Jeremiah 31:37 : Jer 33:24-26; Ro 11:1-5
Jeremiah 31:38 : S Jer 30:18
Jeremiah 31:38 : S Ne 3:1
Jeremiah 31:38 : S 2Ki 14:13; S 2Ch 25:23
Jeremiah 31:39 : S 1Ki 7:23
Jeremiah 31:40 : S Jer 2:23; 7:31-32
Jeremiah 31:40 : S Jer 8:2
Jeremiah 31:40 : S 2Sa 15:23; Jn 18:1
Jeremiah 31:40 : S 2Ki 11:16
Jeremiah 31:40 : S Isa 4:3; Joel 3:17; Zec 14:21

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God is promising the Israelites life after the return from exile. God will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. He promises renewal after living in Babylon.

God is promising that he will surely build and plant again as he had uprooted and torn down before. He promises to make a new covenant with the people of Isarel.

Through this new covenant, God will put his law in the people’s mind and write it on their hearts. Through this new covenant, God will forgive all their sins and wickedness. The new city that God will build will never be uprooted or demolished again.

We suffer and are sometimes punished due to our sins. Yet God is promising the renewal and rebuilding of our lives. God is promising us the new covenant, which was fulfilled through Jesus Christ. In Jesus, we are rebuilt, satisfied, and refreshed. Through Jesus, we have God’s law in our hearts. Through Jesus’s death on the cross, we are forgiven. God is promising us the new city, the kingdom of heaven, to those who are renewed through Jesus Christ.

Prayer: Lord, help us to receive the new covenant in Jesus Christ and be renewed.

One Word: Jesus is the new covenant