The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
30: 1The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 30:2Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of
Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. 30:3For, behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says
Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall
possess it. 30:4These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
30:5For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 30:6Ask
now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 30:7Alas! for that day is great, so
that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 30:8It shall
come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and
will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant; 30:9but they shall
serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. 30:10Therefore don't
you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will
save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall
be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. 30:11For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save
you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a
full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. 30:12For
thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. 30:13There is none to plead
your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. 30:14All your lovers have
forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the
chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
30:15Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because
your sins were increased, I have done these things to you. 30:16Therefore all those who devour you
shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those
who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey. 30:17For I will
restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called
you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. 30:18Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will
turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city
shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. 30:19Out of
them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply
them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 30:20Their
children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will
punish all who oppress them. 30:21Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed
from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is
he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh. 30:22You shall be my people, and I will
be your God. 30:23Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, even his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping
tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. 30:24The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return,
until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you
shall understand it.
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