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Chapter 30  
     
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 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
  
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 Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken unto you in a book.
  
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 For, lo, the days come, said the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
  
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 And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
  
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 For thus said the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
  
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 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
  
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 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.
  
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 For it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord of hosts in vision, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
  
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 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
  
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 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, said the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
  
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 For I am with thee, said the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
  
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 For thus said the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
  
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 There is none to plead thy cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
  
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 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
  
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 Why criest you for your affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
  
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 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
  
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 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal you of thy wounds, said the Lord; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
  
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 Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner of it.
  
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 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them 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.
  
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 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
  
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 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? said the Lord in dream.
  
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 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
  
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 Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
  
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 The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he has done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.
  

 
 
 

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