27 "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 . 28 "As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down , to overthrow , to destroy and to bring disaster , so I will watch over them to build and to plant ," declares the Lord . 29 "In those days they will not say again , ' The fathers have eaten sour grapes , And the children's teeth are set on edge .' 30 "But everyone will die for his own iniquity ; each man who eats the sour grapes , his teeth will be set on edge . 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 ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 31:27-34
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.