8 But God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenantwith the house of Israeland with the house of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the timewhen I took them by the handand brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant,I ignored them, declares the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their mindsand write them on their hearts. I will be their God,and they will be my people.
11 Never again will everyone teach his neighbor or his brother by saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because all of them will know me,from the least important to the most important.
12 For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds,and I will never again remember their sins."