God promises to bring Israel back from exile
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📚✭The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 📚✭“Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. 3 📚✭For, see, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring back my people Israel and Judah from captivity✭, says the LORD, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it”.4 And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 📚✭“For thus says the LORD:
We have heard a voice of trembling,
of fear, and not of peace.
6 📚Ask now and see whether a man
ever bears a child?
Why do I see every man with his hands
on his loins, like a woman in labour,
and all faces turned pale?
7 📚✭Alas! For that day is great,
so that none is like it.
So it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,
but he will be saved out of it.
8 📚✭“For it will happen in that day,
says the LORD of hosts, that
I will break his yoke off your neck,
and will tear off your bonds, and foreigners
will no longer make him their servant.
9 📚But they will serve the LORD their God,
and David their king✭, whom I will raise up
for them.
10 📚✭“Therefore do not be afraid,
O Jacob, my servant, says the LORD,
nor be dismayed, O Israel.
For, see, I will save you from afar,
and your offspring from the land
of their captivity;
and Jacob will return, and will be at rest,
and be quiet, and no one
will make him afraid.
11 📚✭For I am with you,
says the LORD, to save you.
Though I make a full end of all nations
where I have scattered you,
yet I will not make a full end of you;
but I will correct you in measure,
and will not leave you altogether
unpunished.
12 📚✭✭For thus says the LORD:
Your injury is incurable,
and your wound is grievous.
13 📚There is no one
to plead your case,
so that you may be bandaged.
You have no healing medicines.
14 📚All your lovers✭ have forgotten you.
They are not looking for you.
For I have wounded✭ you with the wound
of an enemy, with the discipline
of a cruel one, for your many evil deeds,
because your sins had increased.
15 📚Why do you cry for yourself
in your affliction?
Your sorrow is incurable.
Because of your many iniquities,
because your sins had increased,
I did these things to you.
16 📚Therefore all those who devour
you will be devoured;
and all your adversaries, every one of them,
will go into captivity; and those who plunder
you will be a plunder;
and all who prey on you I will give as a prey.
17 📚✭For I will restore health to you,
and I will heal you of your wounds,
says the LORD, because they called you
an outcast,
saying, ‘This is Zion,
whom no one seeks.’
18 📚📚✭“Thus says the LORD:
See, I will bring back Jacob’s tents
from captivity,
and have mercy on his dwelling places;
and the city will be built on its own ruins,
and the palace will stand in its proper place.
19 📚And out of them will issue thanksgiving✭
and the voice of those who make merry.
And I will increase their number,
and they will not be few.
I will also glorify them, and they will not
be insignificant.
20 📚Their children also will be as before,
and their congregation will be
established before me,
and I will punish all who oppress them.
21 📚And their nobles will be from among them,
and their governor will come
from among them;
and I will cause him to draw near✭,
and he will approach me.
For who else would venture
to approach me? says the LORD.
22 📚And you will be my people,
and I will be your God”.
23 📚✭See, the whirlwind of the LORD
goes out with fury, a sweeping whirlwind.
It will fall violently on the head
of the wicked.
24 📚The fierce anger of the LORD will not
go back until he has done it,
and until he has carried out the purposes
of his heart.
In the latter days you will understand it.