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 Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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"Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying: `Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
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For lo, the days come,' saith the LORD, `that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,' saith 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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And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah:
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"For thus saith the LORD: `We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear and not of peace.
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