Jeremiah 30

¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ² “ The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘ Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. ³ For, behold, the days come, ’ says the LORD, ‘ that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, ’ says the LORD. ‘ I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”

⁴ These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. ⁵ For the LORD says: “ We have heard a voice of trembling;

⁶ Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child.

⁷ Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it!

⁸ It will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck,

⁹ but they will serve the LORD their God,

¹⁰ Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD. Don’t be dismayed, Israel.

¹¹ For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you;

¹² For the LORD says, “ Your hurt is incurable.

¹³ There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.

¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you.

¹⁵ Why do you cry over your injury?

¹⁶ Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured.

¹⁷ For I will restore health to you, “ because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘ It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”

¹⁸ The LORD says: “ Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob ’s tents,

¹⁹ Thanksgiving will proceed out of them

²⁰ Their children also will be as before,

²¹ Their prince will be one of them,

²² “ You shall be my people,

²³ Behold, the LORD ’s storm, his wrath, has gone out,

²⁴ The fierce anger of the LORD will not return until he has accomplished,