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¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,² Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.³ For, look, 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 And 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 now, and see whether a man travails with child: why do I see every [able-bodied] man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces have turned pale?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 And 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 slave;⁹ but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

¹⁰ Therefore don't be afraid, O Jacob my slave, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, look, 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 have increased.¹⁵ Why do you cry for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.¹⁶ Therefore all those that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and those that despoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey on you I will 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: Look, 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 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those that 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 sons also shall be as previously, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.²¹ And 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 that has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.²² And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.²³ Look, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, has 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 has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.