Jeremiah Chapter 30

From The Open Bible Project

30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

• (a) Because they would be assured and their posterity confirmed in the hope of this deliverance promised.

30:3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

30:4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

• (b) He shows that before this deliverance will come, the Chaldeans would be extremely afflicted by their enemies, and that they would be in such perplexity and sorrow as a woman in her travail as (Isaiah 13:8).

30:6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

30:7 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.

• (c) Meaning that the time of their captivity would be grievous.

30:8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;

• (d) When I will visit Babylon.
• (e) Of the king of Babylon.
• (f) That is, of Jacob.

30:9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

• (g) That is, Messiah who would come of the stock of David according to the flesh and would be the true pastor, (Ezekiel 34:23) who is set forth and his kingdom would be everlasting in the person of David, (Hosea 3:5).

30:10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.

• (h) In this is commanded God’s great mercy toward his, who does not destroy them for their sins, but corrects and chastises them till he has purged and pardoned them and so burns the rods by which he punished them, (Isaiah 33:1).

30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.

30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.

30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

30:15 Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.

• (m) Meaning that the city and the temple would be restored to their former estate.

30:19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

• (n) He shows how the people will with praise and thanksgiving acknowledge this blessing.

30:20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.

30:21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.

• (o) Meaning, Zerubbabel, who was the figure of Christ in whom this was accomplished.
• (p) Signifying that Christ willingly submits himself to the obedience of God his father.

30:22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

• (q) Lest the wicked hypocrites should flatter themselves with these promises the prophet shows what will be their portion.

30:24 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.

• (r) When this Messiah and deliverer is sent.