\q1 I, Yahweh, will cause something to happen on the earth that is new:
\q2 the women of Israel will be protecting their husbands as they travel back here!"
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\v 23 This is what Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, the God whom Israel worships, says: "When I bring them back from the countries to which they have been exiled, all the people from the towns in Judah will again say, 'I hope that Yahweh will bless this my home, the holy place where righteous people will live!'
\v 24 The people of Judah who live in the towns, including the farmers and the shepherds, will all live together peacefully.
\v 25 I will enable weary people to be refreshed with drinks of water, and enable people who are very exhausted to become strong again."
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\v 26 I, Jeremiah, woke up after dreaming all those things, and I looked around. I had slept very delightfully!
\v 27 Then Yahweh said to me, "There will be a time when I will greatly increase the number of people and the number of livestock here in Israel and Judah.
\v 28 Previously, I caused their enemies to remove the people from their land and to destroy their land and to bring many disasters to it. But in the future, I will enable them to build houses and to plant crops here in Israel again. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.
\v 29 Previously the people often said, 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but it is the children's teeth that ache.' They meant that it was not fair for them to be punished for their ancestors' sins. But when I bring them back to their land, they will no longer say that.
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\v 30 But now all people will die because of the sins that they themselves have committed. It will be more like 'The person who eats sour grapes will have his own teeth aching.'
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\v 31 I, Yahweh, say this: 'There will be a time when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
\v 32 This new agreement will not be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors when I took them by their hands and led them out of Egypt. They disobeyed that agreement, even though I loved them like husbands love their wives.'
\v 33 This is what I, Yahweh, say: 'This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
\v 34 And it will not be necessary for them to teach their neighbors or their relatives and say, "You need to know Yahweh," because everyone, including both unimportant people and very important people, will already know me. And I will forgive them for having been very wicked, and I will never think again about the sins that they have committed.'"
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\v 35 Yahweh is the one who causes the sun to give light during the day,
\q2 and who causes the moon and the stars to give light during the night.
\q1 He stirs up the seas, with the result that waves roar.
\q1 His name is Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies,
\q2 and this is what he says:
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\v 36 "I will not permanently reject my Israelite people
\q2 any more than I will get rid of the laws that control the universe.
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\v 37 And this is what I say:
\q1 'No one can measure the sky
\q2 and no one can find out what is supporting the earth.
\q1 Similarly, I cannot reject the descendants of Jacob
\q2 because of all the evil things that they have done.'
\q1 That is certain, because I, Yahweh, have said it!
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\v 38 I, Yahweh, also say that there will be a time when everything in Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the tower of Hananel at the northeast corner, west to the gate named the Corner Gate.
\v 39 Workers will stretch a measuring line over Gareb Hill all the way southwest to Goah.
\v 40 And the whole area, including the place where corpses and ashes are thrown in the Kidron Valley, and all the fields to the east as far as the Horse Gate, will become set apart for me. And the city of Jerusalem will never again be captured or destroyed."
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