It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 31:28 in context
Jeremiah 31:25–31
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For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
26
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
27
“Behold, the days come,” 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 animal.
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It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD.
29
“In those days they will say no more,
“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
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But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
31
“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
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