Jeremia 30:10

10 Gij dan, vrees niet, o Mijn knecht Jakob! spreekt de HEERE, ontzet u niet, Israel! want zie, Ik zal u uit verre landen verlossen, en uw zaad uit het land hunner gevangenis; en Jakob zal wederkomen, en stil en gerust zijn, en er zal niemand zijn, die hem verschrikke.

Jeremia 30:10 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:10

Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord,
&c.] Since the Messiah, who is the Lord God, should be raised up to thorn, whom they should serve, and he should save them; and so had nothing to fear from their enemies; and had no reason to doubt of salvation and deliverance, seeing so great a person was engaged for them. The language is very much like the Prophet Isaiah's: neither be dismayed, O Israel:
the same thing in other words; for Jacob and Israel are the same; and to fear and be dismayed are much alike: for, lo, I will save thee from afar;
from a far country; not from Babylon only, but from all distant countries where they are dispersed, east, west, north, or south; distance of place should be no hinderance to their salvation, and so need be no objection in their minds to it: and thy seed from the land of their captivity;
their children should come forth with them: it seems to respect future times; that though this should not be accomplished in the persons of the Israelites then living, yet should be in their posterity: and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none
shall make [him] afraid;
which was not fulfilled upon the Jews' return from the Babylonish captivity; for they quickly met with much opposition and disturbance in the rebuilding of their city and temple; and afterwards from Antiochus, in the times of the Maccabees, by whom they were greatly disquieted; and at last by the Romans, by whom their nation was subdued and ruined; wherefore this respects the quiet and peaceable times they shall have when they are converted, and have embraced the Christian religion.

Jeremia 30:10 In-Context

8 Want het zal te dien dage geschieden, spreekt de HEERE der heirscharen, dat Ik zijn juk van uw hals verbreken, en uw banden verscheuren zal; en vreemden zullen zich niet meer van hem doen dienen.

9 Maar zij zullen dienen den HEERE, hun God, en hun koning David, dien Ik hun verwekken zal.

10 Gij dan, vrees niet, o Mijn knecht Jakob! spreekt de HEERE, ontzet u niet, Israel! want zie, Ik zal u uit verre landen verlossen, en uw zaad uit het land hunner gevangenis; en Jakob zal wederkomen, en stil en gerust zijn, en er zal niemand zijn, die hem verschrikke.

11 Want Ik ben met u, spreekt de HEERE, om u te verlossen; want Ik zal een voleinding maken met al de heidenen, waarhenen Ik u verstrooid heb; maar met u zal Ik geen voleinding maken; maar Ik zal u kastijden met mate, en u niet gans onschuldig houden.

12 Want zo zegt de HEERE: Uw breuk is dodelijk, uw plage is smartelijk.