Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 121, Jeremiah 31:27-34 - New King James Version (2024)

God the Help of Those Who Seek Him

A Song of Ascents.

121I ^(A)will lift up my eyes to the hills—
From whence comes my help?
^2(B)My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

^3(C)He will not allow your foot to ^[a]be moved;
^(D)He who keeps you will not slumber.
⁴Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵The Lord is your ^[b]keeper;
The Lord is ^(E)your shade ^(F)at your right hand.
^6(G)The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.

⁷The Lord shall ^[c]preserve you from all evil;
He shall ^(H)preserve your soul.
⁸The Lord shall ^(I)preserve^[d] your going out and your coming in
From this time forth, and even forevermore.

²⁷“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that ^(A)I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. ²⁸And it shall come to pass, that as I have ^(B)watched over them ^(C)to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them ^(D)to build and to plant, says the Lord. ^29(E)In those days they shall say no more:

‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

^30(F)But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

A New Covenant

³¹“Behold, the ^(G)days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— ³²not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that ^(H)I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, ^[a]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. ^33(I)But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: ^(J)I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their ^[b]hearts; ^(K)and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for ^(L)they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For ^(M)I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

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