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Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its towns when I restore their fortunes: "The Lord bless you, O abode of righteousness, O holy hill!"
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And Judah and all its towns shall live there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.
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I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish.
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Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
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The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.
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And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.
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In those days they shall no longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."
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But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.
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The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
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It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
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But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.