The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord The word of prophecy, us the Targum. Some make this to be the "thirteenth" sermon of the prophet's; it is a consolatory one, as Kimchi observes: saying; as follows:
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"This is what ADONAI the God of Isra'el says: 'Write all the words I have spoken to you in a scroll.
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For the day is coming,' says ADONAI, 'when I will reverse the exile of my people Isra'el and Y'hudah,' says ADONAI. 'I will cause them to return to the land I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it.'"
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These are the words ADONAI spoke concerning Isra'el and Y'hudah:
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Here is what ADONAI says: "We have heard a cry of terror, of fear and not of peace.
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