21. “Set up road markers for yourself;make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went.Return, O virgin Israel,return to these your cities.
22. How long will you waver, O faithless daughter?For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:a woman encircles a man.”
23. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: “‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!’
24. And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.
25. For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”
26. At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
27. “Behold, 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 the seed of beast.
28. And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord.
29. In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30. But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31. “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
32. not like the covenant that I made 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 husband, declares the Lord.
33. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I 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, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
35. Thus says the Lord,who gives the sun for light by dayand the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name:
36. “If this fixed order departsfrom before me, declares the Lord,then shall the offspring of Israel ceasefrom being a nation before me forever.”