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Jeremiah 37
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1THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
1The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.
2“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
3For, behold, the days come,says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.
3For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
4AND THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND JUDA;
4These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5Thus said the Lord: You⌃ shall hear a sound of fear, [there is] fear, and there is not peace.
5For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.
6Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and [ask] concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and [look for] safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; [their] faces are turned to paleness.
6Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?
7For that day is great, and there is not such [another]; and itis a time of straitness to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it.
7Alas, 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.
8In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:
8It will 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. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
9but they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.
9but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
12Thus says the Lord; I have brought on [you] destruction; your stroke is painful.
12For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.
13There is none to judge your cause: you have been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for you.
13There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.
14All your friends have forgotten you; they shall not ask [about you] at all, for I have struck you with he stroke of an enemy, [even] severe correction: your sins have abounded above all your iniquity.
14All 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.
15Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, [therefore] they have done these things to you. Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall eat all their [own] flesh.
15Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
16And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you .
16Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.
17For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound,says the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
17For 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.’”
18Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.
18Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.
19And there shall go forth from them singers, [even] the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.
19Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
20And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before me, and I will visit them that afflict them.
20Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.
21And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to me?says the Lord.
21Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.
23For the wrathful anger of the lord has gone forth, [even] a whirlwind of anger has gone forth: it shall come upon the ungodly.
23Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm; it will burst on the head of the wicked.
24The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he shall execute [it], and until he shall establish the purpose of his heart: in the latter days you⌃ shall know these things.
24The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”