¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ² So speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. ³ For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of 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 will possess it. ⁴ And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. ⁵ For so says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. ⁶ Ask you now, and see whether a man does labour with child ? why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labour, and all faces are turned into paleness? 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 For 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 chains, and strangers will no more serve themselves of him ⁹ But they will serve the LORD their God, and David their king, who I will raise up to them. ¹⁰ Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob will return, and will be in rest, and be quiet, and none will make him afraid. ¹¹ For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: even though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished. ¹² For so says the LORD, your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous. ¹³ There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. ¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you; 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 your sins were increased. ¹⁵ Why cries you for your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you. ¹⁶ Therefore all those devour you will be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity; and those spoil you will be a spoil, and all that prey on you will I give for a prey. ¹⁷ For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, who no man seeks after. ¹⁸ So says the LORD; See, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city will be built on her own heap, and the palace will remain after the manner of it. ¹⁹ And out of them will proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small. ²⁰ Their children also will be as aforetime, and their congregation will be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. ²¹ And their nobles will be of themselves, and their governor will proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach to me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach to me? says the LORD. ²² And you will be my people, and I will be your God. ²³ See, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forward with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it will fall with pain on the head of the wicked. ²⁴ The fierce anger of the LORD will not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you will consider it.