Jer 30
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The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
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Thus speaks YHWH, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken
to you in a book.
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For, behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will turn again the captivity of my
people Israel and Judah, says YHWH; 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 YHWH spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
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For thus says YHWH: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
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Ask you now, and see whether a man does 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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And it shall come to pass in that day, says YHWH of hosts, that I will break his yoke
from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him
their bondman;
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but they shall serve YHWH their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to
them.
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Therefore fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says YHWH; neither be dismayed, O Israel:
for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
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For I am with you, says YHWH, 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 wise leave you unpunished.
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For thus says YHWH, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
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There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
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All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not: 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.
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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.
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Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every
one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil you shall be a spoil,
and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
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For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says YHWH; because
they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
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Thus says YHWH: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob`s tents, and have
compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon its own hill,
and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.
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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 prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst
of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is
he who has had boldness to approach to me? says YHWH.
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And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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Behold, the tempest of YHWH, [even his] anger, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest:
it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
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The fierce anger of YHWH shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have
performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.