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 again the captivity of 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 spake 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.