Jeremiah 30
HALLJeremiah 30:3
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD; that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, &c.
Howsoever God will not so suddenly free his people from their captivity as is falsely foretold by some flattering prophets, yet surely he hath set the time, wherein he will most certainly accomplish it.
Jeremiah 30:6
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth 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?
It is not for a man, we know, to travail with child; how then is it, that the men hold their hands on their loins, and move their bodies in a woeful complaint of pain, as if they were women in the very throes of their delivery; and all faces, by the paleness thereof, bewray fear and astonishment?
Jeremiah 30:7
It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
It is the time of the most grievous trouble and calamity to the posterity of Jacob; but, at last, it shall end well, and they shall be delivered from it.
Jeremiah 30:9
But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
They shall serve the Lord their God, and Christ his Son, the successor of David, in his spiritual government, whom I will in due time send into the world.
Jeremiah 30:12
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, &c.
Thine affliction, in regard to any human help, is utterly remediless.
Jeremiah 30:13
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
There is none, so much as to solicit for thy cure and redress; nor any means left, whereby it may be, in man’s reason, effected.
Jeremiah 30:14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee: they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, &c.
All those confederate nations that professed friendship to thee, have quite forgotten thee; for I have deeply afflicted thee, by the cruel hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 30:17
Because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Because they have insulted upon thy misery, and despised thee, as an outcast and forlorn people, saying; This is that goodly hill of Zion; once the pride, now the scorn of the world.