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prophet, that you should put him in
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prison and in the stocks. Now
therefore, why have you not rebuked
Jeremiah of Anathoth who makes 30:7 time of Jacob’s trouble. This period of
himself a prophet to you? For he has unprecedented difficulty for Israel,as the verse
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sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘This defines, is set in a context of Israel’s final
captivity is long; build houses and restoration. It is best equated with the time of
dwell in them, and plant gardens and tribulation (vv. 8,9) just before Christ’s Second
eat their fruit.’ ” Advent mentioned elsewhere (Dan. 12:1; Matt.
24:21,22) and described in detail by Revelation
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Now Zephaniah the priest read this 6–19.
letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the
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prophet. Then the word of the LORD
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came to Jeremiah, saying: Send to all And will burst your bonds;
those in captivity, saying, Thus says the Foreigners shall no more enslave them.
LORD concerning Shemaiah the 9 But they shall serve the LORD
Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has their God,
prophesied to you, and I have not sent And David their king,
him, and he has caused you to trust in Whom I will raise up for them.
a lie— therefore thus says the LORD: 10 ‘Therefore do not fear, O My servant
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Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Jacob,’ says the LORD,
Nehelamite and his family: he shall not ‘Nor be dismayed, O Israel;
have anyone to dwell among this For behold, I will save you from afar,
people, nor shall he see the good that I And your seed from the land of their
will do for My people, says the LORD, captivity.
because he has taught rebellion Jacob shall return, have rest and be
against the LORD. quiet,
And no one shall make him afraid.
The word that came to Jeremiah from 11
30 the LORD, saying, “Thus speaks the For I am with you,’ says the LORD,
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LORD God of Israel, saying: ‘Write in a book for ‘to save you;
yourself all the words that I have spoken to you. Though I make a full end of all nations
3 For behold, the days are coming,’ says the where I have scattered you,
LORD, ‘that I will bring back from captivity My Yet I will not make a complete end
of you.
people Israel and Judah,’ says the LORD. ‘And I But I will correct you in justice,
will cause them to return to the land that I gave And will not let you go altogether
to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’ ”
4 unpunished.’
Now these are the words that the LORD
spoke concerning Israel and Judah. 12 “For thus says the LORD:
“For thus says the LORD:
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‘Your affliction is incurable,
‘We have heard a voice of trembling, Your wound is severe.
Of fear, and not of peace. 13 There is no one to plead
6 Ask now, and see, your cause,
Whether a man is ever in labor with That you may be bound up;
child? You have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you;
So why do I see every man with his
hands on his loins They do not seek you;
Like a woman in labor, For I have wounded you with the
And all faces turned pale? wound of an enemy,
7 Alas! For that day is great, With the chastisement of a
So that none is like it; cruel one,
And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, For the multitude of your iniquities,
But he shall be saved out of it. Because your sins have increased.
Why do you cry about your affliction?
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8 ‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’ Your sorrow is incurable.
Says the LORD of hosts, Because of the multitude of your
‘That I will break his yoke from your iniquities,
neck, Because your sins have increased,

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