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.
10. Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one 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 Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
13. There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.