Chapter
30
The word that came to Jeremia from Yahweh, saying,
Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their mothers, and they shall possess it.
These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Ask now, and see whether a woman does travail with child: why do I see every woman with her hands on her waist, as a man in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacoba's trouble; but she shall be saved out of it.
It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break her yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make her their bondmaid;
but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and Davina their queen, whom I will raise up to them.
Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacoba my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacoba shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make her afraid.
For I am with you, says Yahweh, 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.
For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
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.
Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no woman seeks after.
Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacoba's tents, and have compassion on her dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.
Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.
Their princess shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause her to draw near, and she shall approach to me: for who is she who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.
You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even her wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until she has executed, and until she have performed the intents of her heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.