Jeremiah 30:1-13 ▼

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

2 Thus speaketh the LORD, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will turn 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.'

4 And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

5 For thus saith the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace.

6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; Wherefore do I see every man With his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, And all faces are turned into paleness?

7 Alas! for that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is a time of trouble unto Jacob, But out of it shall he be saved.

8 And it shall come to pass in that day, Saith the LORD of hosts, That I will break his yoke from off thy neck, And will burst thy bands; And strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up unto them.

10 Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob My servant, saith the LORD; Neither be dismayed, O Israel; For, lo, I will save thee from afar, And thy seed from the land of their captivity; And Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease, And none shall make him afraid.

11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; For I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, But I will not make a full end of thee; For I will correct thee in measure, And will not utterly destroy thee.

12 For thus saith the LORD: Thy hurt is incurable, And thy wound is grievous.

13 None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; Thou hast no healing medicines.