"This is what the LORD says"

In Old Testament class, we are reading the prophets, such as Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.  During this time I've been thinking of Jon Foreman's song "Instead of a Show," which is based on passages in Amos and Isaiah.

Also, when reading Jeremiah, I was astonished when I came across certain passages.  Here's one I'd like to share, from chapter 31:

"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,"
declares the LORD.

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the LORD.

"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."