For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will raise for David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
For, lo, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had eaten, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, and to the same extent also is he the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And for this reason he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.