1. The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2. “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write 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. ‘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 Yahweh says: “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 man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are 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. It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make them their bondservants;
9. but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.