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1 The LORD spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said, 2 |This is what the LORD God of Israel says: Write in a book everything that I tell you. 3 The days are coming,| declares the LORD, |when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity. I will bring them back to the land that I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it.| 4 This is the message that the LORD spoke about Israel and Judah: 5 |This is what the LORD says: |We hear cries of fear, cries of panic, not cries of peace. 6 Ask now, and see: Can a man give birth to a child? Why, then, do I see every strong man holding his stomach in pain like a woman giving birth to a child? Why has every face turned pale? 7 How terrible that day will be! There will be no other day like it. It will be a time of calamity for the descendants of Jacob, but they will be rescued from it. 8 |On that day,| declares the LORD of Armies, |I will break the yokes off your necks and tear off your ropes. Foreigners will no longer make you serve them. 9 You will serve the LORD your God and David your king. I will establish him for you. Jeremiah 30:1-9, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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