Quotes About Covenant

And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,í declares the LORD, ëfor I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.í”

“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylonís seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëWrite in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ëKnow the LORD,í because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israelís descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israelís descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ëBuy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.í