Jeremiah 30:1-9 ▼

1 The LORD spoke to Jeremiah.

2 The LORD God of Israel says, 'Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll.

3 For I, the LORD, affirm that the time will come when I will reverse the plight of my people, Israel and Judah,' says the LORD. 'I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors and they will take possession of it once again.'|

4 So here is what the LORD has to say about Israel and Judah.

5 Yes, here is what he says: |You hear cries of panic and of terror; there is no peace in sight.

6 Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?

7 Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.

8 When the time for them to be rescued comes,| says the LORD who rules over all, |I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.

9 But they will be subject to the LORD their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.