Jeremiah 30:3

3 ¹For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, ²when I will restore ³the fortunes of my people, ⁴Israel and Judah, says the Lord, ⁵and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it. ”

Jeremiah 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:3

For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord
And they are yet to come; the prophecy is not yet fulfilled. Kimchi says this belongs to the days of the Messiah; but not to his first coming, or to his coming in the flesh, which the Jews vainly expect; but to his spiritual coming in the latter day: that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,
saith the Lord;
which cannot be understood of their return from the Babylonish captivity; for, as Kimchi rightly observes, only Judah and Benjamin returned from thence; and though there were some few of the other tribes that came with them, especially of the tribe of Levi, yet not sufficient to answer to so great a prophecy as this, which refers to the same time as that in ( Hosea 3:5 ) ; as appears by comparing that with ( Jeremiah 30:9 ) ; and when, as the Apostle Paul says, "all Israel shall be saved", ( Romans 11:25 ) ; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their
fathers, and they shall possess it;
the land of Canaan, given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and which shall be again by the Jews their posterity; for, without that the Jews upon their call and conversion shall return to their own land, in a literal sense, I see not how we can understand this, and many other prophecies.

Jeremiah 30:3 In-Context

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

3 For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it. ”

4 These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

5 “Thus says the Lord: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.

Cross References

• 1. 30:3 Hab. 2:3
• 2. 30:3 ver. 18; ch. 29:14; 31:23; 32:44; 33:7, 11, 26; Job 42:10; Lam. 2:14
• 3. 30:3 Ezra 2:1
• 4. 30:3 Isa. 11:12, 13; Hos. 1:11
• 5. 30:3 ch. 12:15; Ezek. 20:42; See ch. 16:15; 23:3