Quotes About Covenant

Instead they will say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.í For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

Moreover, tell the house of the king of Judah to hear the word of the LORD.

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.í”

Then people will reply, ëBecause they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.í”

“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.í

Instead they will say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.í Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.í”

So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:

Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.í

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëBecause you have not obeyed My words,

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;

And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ëIf you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

ëThey will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,í declares the LORD. ëThen I will bring them back and restore them to this place.í”

Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.