1The response that came upon Jeremiah from before LORD JEHOVAH, and he said 2“Thus says LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel: ‘Write for yourself upon a scroll all the words that I have spoken to you 3For behold, the days are coming, says LORD JEHOVAH, and I shall return the captivity of my people Israel and of Yehuda, says LORD JEHOVAH, and I shall return them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall inherit it’”

4And these are the words that LORD JEHOVAH spoke about Israel and about Yehuda:

5“Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: ‘We are hearing a sound of trembling fear, and there is no peace

6Ask and see if a male gives birth. Why have I seen every man place his hands on his sides like a woman in labor, and all faces were turned to a fever?

7Woe, for great is that day, and there is none like it, and it is a time of distress for Yaqob, and he shall be redeemed from it!

8And it will be in that day, says LORD JEHOVAH of hosts, I shall break his yoke from your neck, and your collars I shall cut off, and foreigners shall not subject them again 9But they shall serve LORD JEHOVAH their God, and David their King, whom I shall raise up for them

10And you, my Servant Yaqob, shall not fear, says LORD JEHOVAH, and you shall not be broken, oh, Israel! Behold, I save you from far off, and your seed from the land of their captivity, and Yaqob shall dwell and will be quiet, and he shall rest and he shall be refreshed, and it shall not be harmful to him

11And you shall not be afraid, my Servant Yaqob, says LORD JEHOVAH, because I am with you to save you, says LORD JEHOVAH, because I shall make an end to all the nations where I scattered you, and of you I shall not make an end, and I shall discipline you in judgment, and I shall surely not declare you innocent!

12Because, thus says LORD JEHOVAH: ‘Painful is your wound, and severe is your disease

13And there is none who judges your case who will help you and will heal you

14All your friends have disregarded you, and they seek your life, because the slaughter of an enemy struck you, and mighty chastisement, because your crimes have increased, and your sins have grown strong that you would not return home

15Why have you wailed for your wound? Your pain is severe because of the multitude of your sins, and because your sins have increased I have done these things to you

16Because of all this, all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your enemies shall depart into captivity, and those trampling you shall be for treading under foot, and all of them plundering you I shall give for plunder

17Because I shall bring forth healing for you, and I shall heal you of your wound, says LORD JEHOVAH, because they have called you an outcast. ‘Zion is she who has no avenger’”

18Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: “Behold, I return the captivity of the tabernacle of Yaqob, and I do to him as from former times, and upon his tents I shall show love, and the city shall be built on his hill, and the temple in its service shall be established

19And thanksgiving and the voices of singers shall go out from them, and I shall multiply them and they shall not be diminished, and I shall strengthen them and they shall not fail

20And their children shall be as from former times and their congregation shall be established before me, and I shall adjudicate against all their oppressors

21And their King will be from them, and their Leader will come forth from among them, and I shall bring him near, and he will approach me, because I shall turn his heart to me, says LORD JEHOVAH

22And you shall be to me a people, and I shall be to you God, for who turns his heart to my worship and I have cast him out, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts?

23Behold, the tornado of LORD JEHOVAH goes forth with heat, and a flaming tornado on the head of the wicked shall rest

24The heat of the passion of LORD JEHOVAH will not return until he will perform and until he will confirm the mind of his heart; in the last days you shall understand it