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Restoration of Israel
30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write
thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
30:3 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.
30:4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning
Israel and concerning Judah.
30:5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
30:6 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?
30:7 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.
30:8 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:
30:9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David
their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
30:10 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.
30:11 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 I will not make a full end of thee: but
I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee
altogether unpunished.
30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and
thy wound is grievous.
30:13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be
bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
30:14 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.
30:15 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.
30:16 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.
30:17 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.
30:18 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.
30:19 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.
30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
congregation shall be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them.
30:21 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.
30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
30:23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with
fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon
the head of the wicked.
30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until
he hath done it, and until he have performed the intents of
his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. |
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