Chapter summary
Jeremiah 31 Summary
Jeremiah 31 holds out God's tender love for his people and his promise of a new covenant — one written on the heart, with sins remembered no more.
Even in judgment, God speaks of his everlasting love and his plan to restore Israel: building them up, planting them again, turning their mourning into joy. The chapter's warmth shines through what could have been only a courtroom verdict.
Its high point is the new covenant promise (vv. 31–34): God will put his law within them and write it on their hearts; everyone will know him; he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. Jesus quotes it at the Last Supper. The whole New Testament is its echo.
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Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.” Jeremiah 31:33 ““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.”
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