25. I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are wearyand fully refresh the souls of those who are faint.
26. Then they will say, ‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleepwhen I wake up and look around.’”
27. “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.
28. In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the Lord, affirm it!”
29. “When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’
30. Rather, each person will die for his own sins. The teeth of the person who eats the sour grapes will themselves grow numb.
31. “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
32. It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the Lord.