[1] The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, [2] Thus speaks
Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have
spoken to you in a book. [3] For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that
I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh;
and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers,
and they shall possess it. [4] These are the words that Yahweh spoke
concerning Israel and concerning Judah. [5] For thus says Yahweh: We have
heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. [6] Ask you now, and
see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his
hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into
paleness? [7] 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. [8] It
shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh 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 bondservant; [9] but they shall serve Yahweh their God,
and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. [10] Therefore don`t
you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed,
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. [11] For 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. [12] For thus says
Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. [13] There is none
to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing
medicines. [14] All 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. [15] 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. [16] Therefore all those who devour you shall be
devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into
captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on
you will I give for a prey. [17] For 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. [18] Thus says
Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob`s tents, and have
compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on its own
hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. [19] Out of
them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them,
and they shall not be small. [20] Their children also shall be as before,
and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish
all who oppress them. [21] 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 Yahweh. [22] You shall be my people, and I will be
your God. [23] Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone
forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. [24]
The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and
until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you
shall understand it.
