1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. “Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying: ‘Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.
3. For behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’ ”
4. Now these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and 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 is ever in labor with child?So why do I see every man with his hands on his loinsLike a woman in labor,And all faces turned pale?
7. Alas! For that day is great,So that none is like it;And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,But he shall be saved out of it.