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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The word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,
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Thus speaks the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
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For, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Yisra'el and Yehudah, says the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
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These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Yisra'el and concerning Yehudah.
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For thus says the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of shalom.