Jeremiah 30

1The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,Cross-references: Jer 1:1 · Jer 26:15

2“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.Cross-references: Ex 17:14 · Deut 31:19 · Deut 31:22 · Job 19:23 · Isa 8:1 · Isa 30:8 · +10 more

3For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”Cross-references: Deut 30:3 · Ezra 3:1 · Ezra 3:8 · Ezra 3:12 · Ps 53:6 · Jer 16:15 · +30 more

4These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

5For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.Cross-references: Isa 5:30 · Isa 59:11 · Jer 4:15 · Jer 6:23 · Jer 8:19 · Jer 9:19 · +9 more

6Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?Cross-references: Ps 48:6 · Isa 13:6 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 29:22 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 6:24 · +11 more

7Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it! It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.Cross-references: Gen 32:7 · Gen 32:24 · Ps 25:22 · Ps 34:19 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 14:1 · +22 more

8It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;Cross-references: Isa 9:4 · Isa 10:27 · Isa 14:25 · Jer 2:20 · Jer 25:14 · Jer 27:2 · +6 more

9but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.Cross-references: Isa 55:3 · Jer 23:5 · Ezek 34:23 · Ezek 37:23 · Hos 3:5 · Luke 1:69 · +3 more

10Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Deut 31:6 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 43:5 · Isa 44:2 · +23 more

11For 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.”Cross-references: Ps 6:1 · Isa 8:10 · Isa 27:7 · Isa 43:25 · Jer 1:8 · Jer 1:19 · +16 more

12For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Isa 1:5 · Jer 14:17 · Jer 15:18 · Jer 30:15 · Ezek 37:11

13There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 32:39 · Job 5:18 · Job 34:29 · Ps 106:23 · Ps 142:4 · +16 more

14All 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.Cross-references: Job 13:24 · Job 16:9 · Job 19:11 · Job 30:21 · Ps 90:7 · Jer 2:36 · +17 more

15Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.Cross-references: Josh 9:10 · 2Chr 36:14 · Ezra 9:6 · Ezra 9:13 · Neh 9:26 · Job 34:6 · +34 more

16Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.Cross-references: Ex 23:22 · Ps 129:5 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 14:2 · Isa 33:1 · Isa 41:11 · +30 more

17For 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 man seeks after.’”Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Neh 4:1 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 23:3 · Ps 44:13 · Ps 79:9 · +18 more

18Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:1 · 1Chr 29:19 · Ezra 6:3 · Neh 3:1 · Neh 7:4 · Ps 78:69 · +21 more

19Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.Cross-references: Ezra 3:10 · Ezra 6:22 · Neh 8:12 · Neh 8:17 · Neh 12:43 · Ps 53:6 · +28 more

20Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Ps 90:16 · Ps 102:18 · Ps 102:28 · Isa 1:26 · Isa 49:26 · +6 more

21Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 18:27 · Gen 18:30 · Gen 18:32 · Gen 49:10 · Num 16:5 · Num 16:40 · +43 more

22“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.Cross-references: Deut 26:17 · Song 2:16 · Jer 24:7 · Jer 31:1 · Jer 31:33 · Jer 32:38 · +8 more

23Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm; it will burst on the head of the wicked.Cross-references: Ps 58:9 · Prov 1:27 · Jer 23:19 · Jer 25:32 · Zech 9:14

24The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”Cross-references: Gen 49:1 · Num 24:14 · Deut 4:30 · Deut 31:29 · 1Sam 3:12 · Job 23:13 · +15 more