Promise of Deliverance in the Day of Distress

30 The message which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah: 2 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Write all the 3 words I have spoken to thee in a book. For mark! the days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah, and re-establish them in possession of the land I gave their forefathers.

4 Now these are the words Jehovah hath spoken concerning Israel and Judah. 5 Yea, thus saith Jehovah:

We have heard a cry of terror,

Of horror and dispeace.

6 Ask ye now and see

If a man doth travail with child.

What meaneth them this sight–

Every man with his hands on his loins?

And what mean all these faces

Turned to a deathly pallor?

7 Alas! for great is this day,

No day is like unto it;

A time of distress for Jacob–

Yet out of it he shall be saved.

8 On that day, saith Jehovah of Hosts,

I will break the yoke from their necks;

I will snap their bonds asunder,

And strangers no more shall they serve.

9 But Jehovah their God they shall serve.

And David also, their king,

Whom I will raise up unto them.

10 So fear thou not, O Jacob My servant,

O Israel, be not dismayed, saith Jehovah.

For see! I will save both thee and thine offspring

From the far distant land where captive ye lie.

And Jacob once more shall have quiet and ease

In his own land, with no one make him afraid;

11 For I, saith Jehovah, am with thee to save thee.

An end I will make of the nations–

Of each, among whom I have scattered thee;

But of thee I will not make an end.

I will not leave thee wholly unpunished,

But in measure I will chastise thee.