Jeremiah 30

Israel and Judah Will Be Delivered from Their Distress

¹The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,[#Literally “to say”]

²“Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll.[#Literally “to say”]

³For look, days are coming,’ declares Yahweh, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh, ‘and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors and they will take possession of it.’ ”[#Literally “a declaration of”; #Hebrew “fortune”; #Or “fathers”]

⁴Now these are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

⁵“For thus says Yahweh:

‘We have heard a sound of trembling,

⁶Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child.

with his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth?

⁷Alas! For that day is great,

And it is a time of distress for Jacob,

⁸And it will happen on that day,’ declares Yahweh of hosts,[#Literally “a declaration of”]

and your bonds I will tear to pieces.

⁹But they will serve Yahweh their God,

¹⁰But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,’ declares Yahweh,[#Literally “a declaration of”]

for look, I am going to save you from far,

And Jacob will return,

and he will be at ease,

¹¹For I am with you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to save you.[#Literally “a declaration of”]

of all the nations to which I scattered you,

And I will chastise you to the measure,

¹²For thus says Yahweh,

‘Your injury is incurable,

¹³There is no one who pleads your cause,

¹⁴All your lovers have forgotten you,

I have struck you with the blow of an enemy,

because of the greatness of your guilt,

¹⁵Why do you cry because of your wound?

Because of the greatness of your guilt—your sins are vast—

¹⁶Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured,[#Literally “To thus”]

and those who plunder you will be as plunder,

¹⁷For I will present healing to you,

‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying,

¹⁸Thus says Yahweh:

‘Look, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob,

and the city will be rebuilt upon its mound,

¹⁹And thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers

and I will make them numerous,

And I will make them honored,

²⁰And their children will be as of old,

And I will punish all their oppressors.

and their ruler will come out from their midst.

For who is he that would pledge his heart to approach me?’ declares Yahweh.

²²‘And you will be to me a people,

²³Look, the storm of Yahweh!

a whirling tempest.

²⁴The burning anger of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing,[#Literally “The blaze of the nose of Yahweh”]

In the last of the days you will understand it.