During the time of exile, when the people of Israel had been
captured in war and taken to Babylon, the Lord spoke to them through the
prophet Jeremiah. Even though it
was their disobedience that had led to their captivity, God grieved over the
people of Israel and promised a new covenant, a new beginning: "It
will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt--a covenant that they broke, though I was
their companion, says the Lord. But
this is the covenant that
I will make with the house of Israel after these days, says
the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it
on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people."
Jeremiah 31:33-34
Potential ornament for the Jesse Tree: a heart
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