Jeremiah 30:4

4 These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Yisra'el and concerning Yehudah.

Jeremiah 30:4 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:4

And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel,
and concerning Judah.
] Which follow in this chapter and the next; first concerning Israel, the ten tribes; and then concerning the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, even concerning all Israel; whereas, if this prophecy only respects the return from the captivity in Babylon, there is very little in it which concerns the ten tribes, or but a very few of them. The words may be rendered, "unto Israel, and unto Judah"; as being the persons to whom they were directed, as well as were the subjects of them.

Jeremiah 30:4 In-Context

2 Thus speaks the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

3 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.

4 These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Yisra'el and concerning Yehudah.

5 For thus says the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of shalom.

6 Ask 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?