1. When I bring them back (23-32)

God's people broke their covenant with God. They were like an unfaithful wife who broke her marriage vows. So God allowed them to be taken into captivity. But Jeremiah dreamed of the time when they would return to rebuild and plant. At that time, each person would be responsible for his own sins. God would make a new covenant and call each person to a personal relationship with himself.

2. The new covenant (33-40)

The new covenant would not be written on stone tablets but on each person's heart. Each individual person must come to God, repent of his sins and be forgiven. Each person would know the Lord. The covenant relationship is based on God's mercy and grace--not on man's ability and will power. The Creator God who makes the sun shine by day and the moon and stars by night stooped to be the Savior and true Friend of man. And he is faithful.

Application: Lord, thank you for forgiving my sins through the covenant blood of Jesus.
One Word: A personal covenant with God