28 And it shall come to pass, that as I have ^awatched over them ^bto pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them ^cto build and to plant, says the Lord.  ‡

29 ^aIn those days they shall say no more:
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’  ‡

31 “Behold, the ^adays are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—  ‡

32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that ^aI took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,¹ though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.  ‡