The first covenant was not adequate, so God needed a new one.

Hebrews 8:7-13

7 If that first covenant had been perfectly adequate [LIT], God would not have thought that he needed another covenant/agreement to replace it. But it was not adequate, so he needed a new one. 8 Because God declared that the Israelites were guilty of not obeying the first covenant, he wanted a new covenant. This is what ◄a prophet/Jeremiah► wrote about that:

The Lord says, “Listen! There will soon be a time

when I will make a new covenant with the people [MTY] of Israel and the people [MTY] of Judah.

9 That covenant will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors

when I led them out of Egypt [MET] like a father leads a child by the hand.

They did not continue to obey my covenant,

so I rejected them,” says the Lord.

10 “This is the covenant that I will make with the Israelites [MTY],

after the first covenant has ended [MTY],” says the Lord:

“I will enable them to understand my laws [MTY],

and I will enable them to obey them (OR, truly know them) [MTY] sincerely.

I will be their God, and they will be my people [DOU].

11 As a result, no one will need to teach a fellow citizen

or tell his fellow kinsmen, ‘You need to know the Lord,’

because all my people will know me:

My people of every status will know me.

12 I will mercifully forgive them for the wicked things they have done.

I will no longer consider that they are guilty for [DOU] their sins.”

13 Since God spoke about a new covenant, he considered that the first covenant was no longer in use, and that it would soon disappear, just like anything that gets old will disappear [MET, DOU].