Here is a responsive setting of Jeremiah 31:
27-34. It is set for two voices.
Responsive
Setting: Jeremiah 31: 27-34
The
day is coming, says the Lord.
The day is coming
when I will greatly
increase the human population
and the number of
animals here in Israel and Judah.
In the past I
deliberately uprooted and tore down this nation.
I overthrew it,
destroyed it, and brought disaster upon it.
But in the future I
will just as deliberately plant it and build it up.
I, the Lord,
have spoken!
The
day is coming, says the Lord.
The day is coming
when the people will
no longer quote this proverb:
The
parents have eaten sour grapes,
but their children’s mouths pucker at the taste.
but their children’s mouths pucker at the taste.
All people will die
for their own sins—
those who eat the
sour grapes
will be the ones
whose mouths will pucker.
The
day is coming, says the Lord.
The day is coming
when I will make a
new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
This covenant will
not be like the one I made with their ancestors
when I took them by
the hand
and brought them out
of the land of Egypt.
They broke that
covenant,
though I loved them
as a husband loves his wife.
But this is the new
covenant I will make
with the people of
Israel on that day.
I will put my
instructions deep within them,
and I will write them
on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
And they will not
need to teach their neighbors,
nor will they need to
teach their relatives, saying,
You
should know the Lord.
For everyone, from
the least to the greatest,
will know me already.
And I will forgive
their wickedness,
and I will never
again remember their sins.
The
day is coming, says the Lord.
