26. At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.
27. “The day is coming,” says the lord, “when I will greatly increase the human population and the number of animals here in Israel and Judah.
28. In the past I deliberately uprooted and tore down this nation. I overthrew it, destroyed it, and brought disaster upon it. But in the future I will just as deliberately plant it and build it up. I, the lord, have spoken!
29. “The people will no longer quote this proverb:‘The parents have eaten sour grapes,but their children’s mouths pucker at the taste.’
30. All people will die for their own sins—those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker.
31. “The day is coming,” says the lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
32. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the lord.
33. “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.