Jeremiah 30

Israel and Judah Will Be Delivered from Their Distress

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, {saying},
2 "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, {saying}, 'Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll.
3 For look, days [are] coming,' {declares} Yahweh, 'when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,' says Yahweh, 'and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors and they will take possession of it.'"
4 Now these [are] the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 "For thus says Yahweh: 'We have heard a sound of trembling, terror, and there is no peace.
6 Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child. Why [do] I see every strong man [with] his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth? And [why] are all [their] faces changed to paleness?
7 Alas! For that day [is] great, {there is none like it}. And it [is] a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered.
8 And it will happen on that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will break his yoke from your neck and your bonds I will tear to pieces. And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave.
9 But they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
10 But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and you must not be dismayed, Israel, for look, I [am] going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be at rest, and he will be at ease, and there will be no [one who] makes [him] afraid.
11 For I am with you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'to save you. For I will make a complete destruction of all the nations to which I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction. And I will chastise you to the measure, and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.'
12 For thus says Yahweh, 'Your injury [is] incurable, your wound [is] overcome by sickness.
13 There is no [one who] pleads your cause, for [your] boil there is no healing for you.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not care for you. I have struck you [with the] blow of an enemy, [the] punishment of [the] cruel, because of the greatness of your guilt, your sins are numerous.
15 Why do you cry because of your wound? Your pain [is] incurable. Because of the greatness of your guilt--your sins are vast-- I have done these [things] to you.
16 {Therefore} all [those who] devour you will be devoured, and all your foes, all of them will go into captivity, and [those who] plunder you will be as plunder, and all [those who] plunder you I will make as plunder.
17 For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' {declares} Yahweh. 'Because they have called you an outcast, [saying], "It is Zion, there is no [one who] cares for her." '
18 Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I [will] restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and I will have compassion on his dwellings, and [the] city will be rebuilt upon its mound, and [the] citadel fortress will stand on its rightful site.
19 And thanksgiving and [the] sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.
20 And their children will be as of old, and their community will be established {before me}. And I will punish all their oppressors.
21 And their noble will be from them, and their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near and he will approach me. For who [is] he that would pledge his heart to approach me?' {declares} Yahweh.
22 'And you will be to me a people, and I will be to you God.'"
23 Look, the storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon [the] head of [the] wicked.
24 {The burning anger of Yahweh} will not turn back until his doing, and until his accomplishing the plans of his {mind}. In the last of the days you will understand it.

Footnotes 16

  • [a]. Literally "to say"
  • [b]. Literally "to say"
  • [c]. Literally "a declaration of"
  • [d]. Hebrew "fortune"
  • [e]. Or "fathers"
  • [f]. Literally "from none like it"
  • [g]. Literally "a declaration of"
  • [h]. Literally "a declaration of"
  • [i]. Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [j]. Literally "a declaration of"
  • [k]. Literally "To thus"
  • [l]. Literally "a declaration of"
  • [m]. Literally "to the face of me"
  • [n]. Literally "a declaration of"
  • [o]. Literally "The blaze of the nose of Yahweh"
  • [p]. Literally "heart"

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