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Israel and Judah Will Be Delivered from Their Distress

30 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, ⌊saying⌋,[fn] 2 “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ⌊saying⌋,[fn] ‘Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll. 3 For look, days are coming,’ ⌊declares⌋[fn] Yahweh, ‘when I will restore the fortunes[fn] of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh, ‘and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors[fn] and they will take possession of it.’ ”

4 Now these are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 “For thus says Yahweh:

‘We have heard a sound of trembling,
- terror, and there is no peace.
6 Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child.
- Why do I see every strong man
with his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth?
- And why are all their faces changed to paleness?
7 Alas! For that day is great,
- there is none like it .[fn]
And it is a time of distress for Jacob,
- yet from it he will be delivered.
8 And it will happen on that day,’ declares[fn] Yahweh of hosts,
- ‘I will break his yoke from your neck
and your bonds I will tear to pieces.
- And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave.
9 But they will serve Yahweh their God,
- and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
10 But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,’ declares[fn] Yahweh,
- ‘and you must not be dismayed, Israel,
for look, I am going to save you from far,
- and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
And Jacob will return,
- and he will be at rest,
and he will be at ease,
- and there will be no one who makes him[fn] afraid.
11 For I am with you,’ declares[fn] Yahweh, ‘to save you.
- For I will make a complete destruction
of all the nations to which I scattered you,
- but you I will not make a complete destruction.
And I will chastise you to the measure,
- and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.’

12 For thus says Yahweh,

‘Your injury is incurable,
- your wound is overcome by sickness.
13 There is no one who pleads your cause,
- for your boil there is no healing for you.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you,
- they do not care for you.
I have struck you with the blow of an enemy,
- the punishment of the cruel,
because of the greatness of your guilt,
- your sins are numerous.
15 Why do you cry because of your wound?
- Your pain is incurable.
Because of the greatness of your guilt—your sins are vast—
- I have done these things to you.
16 Therefore[fn] all those who devour you will be devoured,
- and all your foes, all of them will go into captivity,
and those who plunder you will be as plunder,
- and all those who plunder you I will make as plunder.
17 For I will present healing to you,
- and I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares[fn] Yahweh.
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying,
- “It is Zion, there is no one who cares for her.” ’

18 Thus says Yahweh:

‘Look, I will restore the fortunes[fn] of the tents of Jacob,
- and I will have compassion on his dwellings,
and the city will be rebuilt upon its mound,
- and the citadel fortress will stand on its rightful site.
19 And thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers
- will come out from them,
and I will make them numerous,
- and they will not be few.
And I will make them honored,
- and they will not be lowly.
20 And their children will be as of old,
- and their community will be established before me .[fn]
And I will punish all their oppressors.
- 21 And their noble will be from them,
and their ruler will come out from their midst.
- And I will bring him near and he will approach me.
For who is he that would pledge his heart to approach me?’ declares[fn] Yahweh.
22 ‘And you will be to me a people,
- and I will be to you God.’ ”
23 Look, the storm of Yahweh!
- Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest.
- It will whirl upon the head of the wicked.
24 The burning anger of Yahweh[fn] will not turn back until his doing,
- and until his accomplishing the plans of his mind .[fn]
In the last of the days you will understand it.

31 “At that time,” ⌊declares⌋[fn] Yahweh,

“I will be the God of all the clans[fn] of Israel,
and they will be to me a people.”

2 Thus says Yahweh:

“The people of the survivors of the sword found grace in the desert;[fn]
- Israel going to find their rest.”
3 From afar Yahweh appeared to me, saying,
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.
- Therefore[fn] I have drawn you with loyal love.
4 I will again build you,
- and you will be built, O virgin Israel.
You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines,
- and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers.
5 You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.
- The planters will plant, and they will enjoy it.[fn]
6 For there will be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim,
- ‘Stand up, and let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God.’ ”

7 For thus says Yahweh,

“Sing for joy for Jacob with gladness,
- and shout out for the head of the nations.
Proclaim, praise, and say,
- ‘Save, O Yahweh, your people, the remnant of Israel.’
8 Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north,
- and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth.
Among them the blind, and the lame,
- those who are pregnant, and those who give birth,
together, a great assembly,
- they will return here.
9 With weeping they will come,
- and with pleas for mercy I will bring them;
I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path.
- They will not stumble in it,
for I have become to Israel a father,
- and Ephraim, he is my firstborn.”
10 Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations,
- and declare in the coastlands from afar, and say,
“The scatterer of Israel will gather him,
- and he will keep him as a shepherd his flock.
11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
- and he has redeemed him from the hand of the person stronger[fn] than he.
12 And they will come,
- and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion,
- and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh,
over the grain, and over the wine, and over the olive oil,
- and over the young ones of the flock, and over the cattle.
And their life will become like a well-watered garden,
- and they will never languish again.”
13 “Then the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring,
- and the young men and the old men together.
And I will turn their mourning to jubilation,
- and I will comfort them,
- and I will gladden them from their sorrow.
14 And I will saturate the appetite of the priests with fatness,
- and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” declares[fn] Yahweh.
15 Thus says Yahweh,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
- lamentation, the weeping of bitterness.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
- she refuses to be comforted because of her children,
- for they are no more.”

16 Thus says Yahweh:

“Restrain your voice from weeping,
- and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,” declares[fn] Yahweh,
- “and they will return from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope for your future,” declares[fn] Yahweh,
- “and your children will return to their territory.
18 Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves,
- ‘You disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
- like a calf that is not trained.
Bring me back and let me return,
- for you are Yahweh my God.
19 For after my turning back I repented,
- and after coming to understand I struck my thigh.
I was ashamed and also humiliated,
- because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 Is Ephraim my dear son,
- or the child of my delight?
For as often as[fn] I have earnestly spoken against him,
- I still remember him.
Therefore[fn] my bowels are turbulent for him,
- surely I will have compassion on him,” declares[fn] Yahweh.
21 “Set up for yourself road markers,
- make for yourself signposts,
set your mind[fn] to the main road,
- the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin of Israel,
- return to these your cities.
22 How long[fn] will you waver, O unfaithful daughter?
For Yahweh has created a new thing on the earth,
- a woman, she shelters a man.”

23 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “They will again say these words[fn] in the land of Judah and in its towns at my restoring their fortunes,[fn]

‘Yahweh bless you, O settlement of righteousness,
- O hill of holiness.’
24 And Judah and all of its towns together will live in it,
- farmers and those who travel with the flocks.[fn]
25 For I will saturate the thirst of the weary,
- and every person who languishes I will replenish.”
26 At this I awoke and looked,
- and my sleep was pleasant to me.

30:1 Literally “to say”

30:2 Literally “to say”

30:3 Literally “a declaration of”

30:3 Hebrew “fortune”

30:3 Or “fathers”

30:5 Literally “from none like it”

30:5 Literally “a declaration of”

30:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

30:5 Literally “a declaration of”

30:12 Literally “To thus”

30:12 Literally “a declaration of”

30:18 Hebrew “fortune”

30:18 Literally “to the face of me”

30:18 Literally “a declaration of”

30:18 Literally “The blaze of the nose of Yahweh”

30:18 Literally “heart”

31:1 Literally “a declaration of”

31:1 Or “families”

31:2 Or “wilderness”

31:2 Literally “Unto thus”

31:2 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

31:7 Literally “strong”

31:7 Literally “a declaration of”

31:16 Literally “a declaration of”

31:16 Literally “from enough”

31:16 Literally “Unto thus”

31:16 Literally “a declaration of”

31:16 Literally “heart”

31:16 Literally “Until when”

31:23 Hebrew “word”

31:23 Hebrew “fortune”

31:23 Hebrew “flock”

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Israel and Judah Will Be Delivered from Their Distress