First light on a Judean hillside above a ruined town: broken walls and a toppled doorway, and a young fig shoot in full green leaf growing out of the rubble.

The Book of Comfort

Jeremiah 30

Has anything in you ever felt past fixing?

24 verses≈ 5 minBSB

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Where we are

1The callJosiah’s thirteenth year (about 627 BC): a prophet to the nations
2–6Return to MeBroken cisterns, faithless Judah, disaster from the north
7–10The temple gateThe temple sermon, a weeping prophet, the living God
11–20Covenant and complaintThe broken covenant, the potter, Jeremiah’s confessions
21–29Shepherds and prophetsKings judged, the Branch, seventy years, the yoke, the letter
30–33The Book of ComfortRestoration, the new covenant, a field bought in a siegeChapter 30
34–39The last days of JudahThe scroll burned, the cistern, Jerusalem falls (586 BC)
40–45After the fallGedaliah at Mizpah, the flight to Egypt, a word for Baruch
46–51The nationsEgypt to Babylon: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
52Jerusalem fallsThe record of 586 BC, and a king released

The Restoration of Israel and Judah

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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God

God

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”

These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

God

Yes, this is what the LORD says:

“A cry of panic is heard—

a cry of terror, not of peace.

Ask now, and see:

Can a male give birth?

Why then do I see every man

with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor

and every face turned pale?

God

Early morning in a stubble field: a wooden ox yoke of two thick bars lies snapped clean through in the grass, its leather straps torn loose; beyond, a freed ox grazes untethered.

On that day,

declares the LORD of Hosts,

I will break the yoke off their necks

and tear off their bonds,

and no longer will strangers enslave them.

Instead, they will serve the LORD their God

and David their king,

whom I will raise up for them.

God

God

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid,

declares the LORD,

and do not be dismayed,

O Israel.

For I will surely save you out of a distant place,

your descendants from the land of their captivity!

Jacob will return to quiet and ease,

with no one to make him afraid.

God

For I am with you to save you,

declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 30:11

God

Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you,

I will not completely destroy you.

Yet I will discipline you justly,

and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Question

Quick question

The LORD describes a day so terrible that strong men double over like women in labor. Look at how 30:7 ends.

What did the LORD say about “the time of Jacob’s distress”?

God

For this is what the LORD says:

“Your injury is incurable;

your wound is grievous.

There is no one to plead your cause,

no remedy for your sores,

no recovery for you.

All your lovers have forgotten you;

they no longer seek you,

for I have struck you as an enemy would,

with the discipline of someone cruel,

because of your great iniquity

and your numerous sins.

God

Why do you cry out over your wound?

Your pain has no cure!

Because of your great iniquity

and your numerous sins

I have done these things to you.

God

Close on a stone ledge in clear morning light: a small clay jar of balm with its stopper out, a folded strip of clean linen bandage and a sprig of olive.

Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured,

and all your adversaries—every one of them—

will go off into exile.

Those who plundered you will be plundered,

and all who raided you will be raided.

But I will restore your health and heal your wounds,

declares the LORD,

because they call you an outcast,

Zion, for whom no one cares.”

Pray

Lord, You see the wounds no one else can heal. You have not forgotten me. Restore my health and heal my wounds, as You promised Zion. Amen.

Wound and healing

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The LORD who struck His people for their sin is the One who heals them. No one else can.

God

Morning on a town mound in the Judean hills: masons set new squared stones for a house wall right on top of old blackened courses of an earlier ruin, rubble cleared into heaps, a wooden ladder.

This is what the LORD says:

“I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents

and have compassion on his dwellings.

And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins,

and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

God

God

Thanksgiving will proceed from them,

a sound of celebration.

I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased;

I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.

Their children will be as in days of old,

and their congregation will be established before Me;

and I will punish all their oppressors.

God

“And you will be My people,

and I will be your God.”

Jeremiah

A dark storm front over a valley in the Judean hills: a tall twisting column of dust sweeps down the valley with rain curtains behind it, the far ridge still lit.

Behold, the storm of the LORD

has gone out with fury,

a whirlwind swirling down

upon the heads of the wicked.

The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back

until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart.

In the days to come

you will understand this.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

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