Jeremiah 30
About JeremiahWritten by AI
Jeremiah is a book of prophecy from the final, painful decades of the kingdom of Judah. Jeremiah was a priest's son from Anathoth, called as a young man around 627 BC. He preached for about forty years, through the reigns of Josiah's sons, the Babylonian sieges, and the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. His scribe Baruch helped write his words down.
The book is not in time order. Sermons, poems, personal laments, and stories are grouped by theme, so a chapter set under Jehoiakim may be followed by one from Zedekiah's reign. The opening verses of a chapter often tell you which king is on the throne, and it helps to watch for them.
The big movement is from warning to judgment to hope. Jeremiah calls a stubborn people back to God, suffers for it, and watches the city fall. Yet in the middle of the book God promises a new covenant, written on the heart. Watch also for Jeremiah's honest prayers of complaint, some of the rawest in Scripture.
Before you read Jeremiah 30Written by AI
Chapters 30 to 33 are often called the Book of Comfort. God tells Jeremiah to write down words of hope. There is a time of distress for Jacob, but he will be saved. God will break the yoke, heal wounds no one else could heal, and raise up David their king.
The Restoration of Israel and Judah
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah. Yes, this is what the LORD says:
“A cry of panic is heard—
a cry of terror, not of peace.
Ask now, and see:
Can a male give birth?
Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor
and every face turned pale?
How awful that day will be!
None will be like it!
It is the time of Jacob’s distress,
but he will be saved out of it.
On that day,
declares the LORD of Hosts,
I will break the yoke off their necks
and tear off their bonds,
and no longer will strangers enslave them.
Instead, they will serve the LORD their God
and David their king,
whom I will raise up for them.
As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid,
declares the LORD,
and do not be dismayed,
O Israel.
For I will surely save you out of a distant place,
your descendants from the land of their captivity!
Jacob will return to quiet and ease,
with no one to make him afraid.
For I am with you to save you,
declares the LORD.
Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you,
I will not completely destroy you.
Yet I will discipline you justly,
and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
For this is what the LORD says:
“Your injury is incurable;
your wound is grievous.
There is no one to plead your cause,
no remedy for your sores,
no recovery for you.
All your lovers have forgotten you;
they no longer seek you,
for I have struck you as an enemy would,
with the discipline of someone cruel,
because of your great iniquity
and your numerous sins.
Why do you cry out over your wound?
Your pain has no cure!
Because of your great iniquity
and your numerous sins
I have done these things to you.
Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured,
and all your adversaries—every one of them—
will go off into exile.
Those who plundered you will be plundered,
and all who raided you will be raided.
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds,
declares the LORD,
because they call you an outcast,
Zion, for whom no one cares.”
This is what the LORD says:
“I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents
and have compassion on his dwellings.
And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins,
and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
Thanksgiving will proceed from them,
a sound of celebration.
I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased;
I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
Their children will be as in days of old,
and their congregation will be established before Me;
and I will punish all their oppressors.
Their leader will be one of their own,
and their ruler will arise from their midst.
And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me,
for who would dare on his own to approach Me?”
declares the LORD.
“And you will be My people,
and I will be your God.”
Behold, the storm of the LORD
has gone out with fury,
a whirlwind swirling down
upon the heads of the wicked.
The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back
until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart.
In the days to come
you will understand this.