Jeremiah 30

¹The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

²The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.

³For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.

⁴And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.

⁵This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

⁶Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

⁷Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

⁸For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

⁹But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.

¹⁰So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.