1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. “the Lord, 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 the Lord, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
4. These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5. For the Lord says:“We have heard a voice of trembling;a voice 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 will be saved out of it.
8. It will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck,and will burst your bonds.Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;