Jeremiah 30
24 verses
YHWH announces restoration to exiles: the days are coming when YHWH will restore the fortunes of Israel and Judah, bringing them back to the land their ancestors possessed, initiating the Book of Consolation (chapters 30-33) that provides the covenantal complement to judgment by establishing restoration as inherent to YHWH's covenant purposes. The description of the time of Jacob's distress and ultimate deliverance establishes that exile is birth-pangs, painful separation that will be followed by emergence into restored existence, while YHWH promises to break the yoke of Babylonian servitude and free the people from subjection. Jacob (representing Israel and Judah collectively) will serve YHWH and David their king, establishing that restoration includes both renewed divine relationship and renewed kingship, connecting restoration to the Davidic covenant that judgment had threatened to nullify, yet which survives through exile and restoration. The chapter's announcement of deliverance from afar and return from the land of captivity establishes that restoration is not dependent on human military power or political maneuvering but on YHWH's sovereign determination to restore covenant relationship, providing hope that judgment is not final and that the exiles' suffering serves a purpose within the larger arc of covenant history.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
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Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
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For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
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And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
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For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
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There's something deeply comforting about knowing that the same God who spoke these words is the same yesterday, today, ...
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Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
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Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
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But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
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Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
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For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
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For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. When we read this alongside the surrounding chapters, the narrative arc becomes ...
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There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
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14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
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Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
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Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
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For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
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Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
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And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
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Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
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And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord.
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And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
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The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
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