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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;
a voice of
fear, and not
of peace.
6 Ask
now, and see
whether a
man travails with
child.
Why do I
see every man
with his hands
on his waist,
as a woman
in travail,
and all faces
are turned pale?
7 Alas,
for that day
is great, so
that none is
like it!
It is even
the time of
Jacob’s trouble;
but he will
be saved out
of 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,
and will burst
your bonds.
Strangers will no
more make them
their bondservants;
9 but
they will serve
the LORD their
God,
and David their
king,
whom I will
raise up to
them.
10 Therefore don’t be
afraid, O Jacob
my servant, says
the LORD.
Don’t be dismayed,
Israel.
For, behold, I
will save you
from afar,
and save your
offspring from
the land of their
captivity.
Jacob will return,
and will be
quiet and at
ease.
No one will
make him afraid.
11 For
I am with
you, says the
LORD, to save
you;
for I will
make a full
end of all
the nations where
I have scattered
you,
but I will
not make a
full end of
you;
but I will
correct you in
measure,
and will in
no way leave
you unpunished.”
12 For
the LORD says,
“Your hurt is
incurable.
Your wound is
grievous.
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.
They don’t seek
you.
For I have
wounded you with
the wound of
an enemy,
with the
chastisement of
a cruel one,
for the greatness
of your iniquity,
because your sins
were increased.
15 Why
do you cry
over your injury?
Your pain
is incurable.
For the greatness
of your iniquity,
because your sins
have increased,
I have done
these things to
you.
16 Therefore
all those
who devour you
will be devoured.
All your
adversaries, everyone
of them, will
go into captivity.
Those who plunder
you will be
plunder.
I will make
all who prey on
you become prey.
17 For
I will
restore health to
you,
and I will
heal you of
your wounds,” says
the LORD,
“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,
and have
compassion on his
dwelling places.
The city will
be built on
its own hill,
and the palace
will be inhabited
in its own
place.
19 Thanksgiving will
proceed out of
them
with the voice
of those who
make merry.
I will multiply
them,
and they will
not be few;
I will also
glorify them,
and they will
not be small.
20 Their
children also will
be as before,
and their
congregation will
be established
before me.
I will punish
all who oppress
them.
21 Their prince
will be one
of them,
and their ruler
will proceed from
among them.
I will cause
him to draw
near,
and he will
approach me;
for who is
he who has
had boldness to
approach me?” says
the LORD.
22 “You
shall be my
people,
and I will
be your God.
23 Behold,
the LORD’s storm,
his wrath, has
gone out,
a sweeping storm;
it will burst
on the head
of the wicked.
24 The
fierce anger of
the LORD will
not return until
he has
accomplished,
and until he
has performed
the intentions of
his heart.
In the latter
days you
will understand it.”