31 " Behold , days are coming ," declares the Lord , "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah , 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt , My covenant which they broke , although I was a husband to them," declares the Lord . 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days ," declares the Lord , " I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God , and they shall be My people . 34 "They will not teach again , each man his neighbor and each man his brother , saying , 'Know the Lord ,' for they will all know 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 remember no more ."
35 Thus says the Lord , Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night , Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar ; The Lord of hosts is His name : 36 " If this fixed order departs From before e Me," declares the Lord , "Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever e ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-36
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:27-34
(Read Jeremiah 31:27-34)
The people of God shall become numerous and prosperous. In Hebrews 8:8,9, this place is quoted as the sum of the covenant of grace made with believers in Jesus Christ. Not, I will give them a new law; for Christ came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil it; but the law shall be written in their hearts by the finger of the Spirit, as formerly written in the tables of stone. The Lord will, by his grace, make his people willing people in the day of his power. All shall know the Lord; all shall be welcome to the knowledge of God, and shall have the means of that knowledge. There shall be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, at the time the gospel is published. No man shall finally perish, but for his own sins; none, who is willing to accept of Christ's salvation.
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:35-40
(Read Jeremiah 31:35-40)
As surely as the heavenly bodies will continue their settled course, according to the will of their Creator, to the end of time, and as the raging sea obeys him, so surely will the Jews be continued a separate people. Words can scarcely set forth more strongly the restoration of Israel. The rebuilding of Jerusalem, and its enlargement and establishment, shall be an earnest of the great things God will do for the gospel church. The personal happiness of every true believer, as well as the future restoration of Israel, is secured by promise, covenant, and oath. This Divine love passes knowledge; and to those who take hold upon it, every present mercy is an earnest of salvation.