What does Jeremias Chapter 30 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Written words promise return alongside Jacob’s tribulation. Broken yoke and David retain the edition’s Christ gloss. Wounds, restored assembly and whirlwind conclude the oracle.

Chapter breakdown

Jeremias 30 commands writing all words in a book and promises Israel and Juda returned to possess ancestral land. Terror and no peace precede questions about men bearing children and men holding loins with yellow faces. Jacob's unequaled tribulation includes promised salvation. Yoke and bands break and strangers rule no more; they serve the Lord and David raised as king. The edition identifies David as Christ.

Jacob and seed are rescued from distant captivity to rest and good things without fear. Nations of dispersal are utterly consumed while Jacob is not utterly consumed but chastised in judgment to avoid seeming innocent. Incurable bruise, grievous wound, absent judgment to bind it and no medicines accompany forgotten lovers and hardened sins. Devourers, enemies, wasters and prey-takers receive reversed outcomes; the Lord closes scars and heals outcast Sion's wounds. These images are not medical advice or promises to every sick person.

Jacob's pavilions and houses receive pity; city is rebuilt in high place and temple in its order. Praise and play, multiplication and glory, restored children and permanent assembly precede visitation on afflicters. Their own leader and prince are brought near, with a question about approaching in heart and reciprocal belonging. Whirlwind rests on wicked heads until thoughts are performed, understood in latter days. A named Book of Consolation, warriors, clinical physicians, political-alliance identity and original hill foundations are not asserted as source facts.

The story inside

Opening: Written words promise return alongside Jacob’s tribulation. Development: Broken yoke and David retain the edition’s Christ gloss. Conclusion: Wounds, restored assembly and whirlwind conclude the oracle.

Lessons worth keeping

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Written words promise return alongside Jacob’s tribulation.
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Broken yoke and David retain the edition’s Christ gloss.
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Wounds, restored assembly and whirlwind conclude the oracle.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 87087–87090
30:3. For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Lines 87106–87113
30:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him: 30:9. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. David.... That is, Christ of the house of David.
Lines 87121–87124
30:11. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.
Lines 87141–87147
30:16. Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured: and all thy enemies shall be carried into captivity: and they that waste thee shall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. 30:17. For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.
Lines 87162–87167
30:21. And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord? 30:22. And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.