By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
NMVIn that he says, A new [covenant], he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old [is] ready to vanish away.
OJBWhen Hashem uses the word “CHADASHA” he has thereby made the Brit HaRishonah yeshanah and a Brit thus made aging, is near to being yakhlof (vanished).
TCENTIn speaking of “a new covenant,” he has made the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.
T4TSince 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].