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"Behold, 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 with the seed of beast.
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"As I have watchedover them to pluck up, to breakdown, to overthrow, to destroy and to bringdisaster, so I will watchover them to build and to plant," declares the LORD.
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not like the covenantwhich I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenantwhich they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
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"But this is the covenantwhich I will make with the house of Israelafterthosedays," declares the LORD, "I will put My lawwithin them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
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"They will not teachagain, eachman his neighbor and eachman his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will allknow Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remembernomore."
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Thussays the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixedorder of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its wavesroar; The LORD of hosts is His name:
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Thussays the LORD, "If the heavensabove* can be measured And the foundations of the earthsearched out below, Then I will alsocastoffall the offspring of Israel For all that they have done," declares the LORD.
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"And the wholevalley of the deadbodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brookKidron, to the corner of the HorseGate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it will not be plucked up or overthrownanymoreforever."