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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 30 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Jeremiah 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/29.htm" title="Jeremiah 29">◄</a> Jeremiah 30 <a href="../jeremiah/31.htm" title="Jeremiah 31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/jeremiah/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Promises of Deliverance</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Write down for the record everything I have said to you, Jeremiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the time is coming when I will restore the fortunes of my people of Israel and Judah. I will bring them home to this land that I gave to their ancestors, and they will possess it again. I, the LORD, have spoken!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>This is the message the LORD gave concerning Israel and Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“I hear cries of fear;</p><p class="line2">there is terror and no peace.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now let me ask you a question:</p><p class="line2">Do men give birth to babies?</p><p class="line1">Then why do they stand there, ashen-faced,</p><p class="line2">hands pressed against their sides</p><p class="line2">like a woman in labor?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In all history there has never been such a time of terror.</p><p class="line2">It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">Yet in the end they will be saved!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For in that day,”</p><p class="line2">says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line1">“I will break the yoke from their necks</p><p class="line2">and snap their chains.</p><p class="line1">Foreigners will no longer be their masters.</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For my people will serve the LORD their God</p><p class="line1">and their king descended from David—</p><p class="line2">the king I will raise up for them.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“So do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant;</p><p class="line2">do not be dismayed, Israel,”</p><p class="line2">says the LORD.</p><p class="line1">“For I will bring you home again from distant lands,</p><p class="line2">and your children will return from their exile.</p><p class="line1">Israel will return to a life of peace and quiet,</p><p class="line2">and no one will terrorize them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For I am with you and will save you,”</p><p class="line2">says the LORD.</p><p class="line1">“I will completely destroy the nations where I have scattered you,</p><p class="line2">but I will not completely destroy you.</p><p class="line1">I will discipline you, but with justice;</p><p class="line2">I cannot let you go unpunished.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says:</p><p class="line1">“Your injury is incurable—</p><p class="line2">a terrible wound.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>There is no one to help you</p><p class="line2">or to bind up your injury.</p><p class="line2">No medicine can heal you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>All your lovers—your allies—have left you</p><p class="line2">and do not care about you anymore.</p><p class="line1">I have wounded you cruelly,</p><p class="line2">as though I were your enemy.</p><p class="line1">For your sins are many,</p><p class="line2">and your guilt is great.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Why do you protest your punishment—</p><p class="line2">this wound that has no cure?</p><p class="line1">I have had to punish you</p><p class="line2">because your sins are many</p><p class="line2">and your guilt is great.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“But all who devour you will be devoured,</p><p class="line2">and all your enemies will be sent into exile.</p><p class="line1">All who plunder you will be plundered,</p><p class="line2">and all who attack you will be attacked.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will give you back your health</p><p class="line2">and heal your wounds,” says the LORD.</p><p class="line1">“For you are called an outcast—</p><p class="line2">‘Jerusalem<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> for whom no one cares.’”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says:</p><p class="line1">“When I bring Israel home again from captivity</p><p class="line2">and restore their fortunes,</p><p class="line1">Jerusalem will be rebuilt on its ruins,</p><p class="line2">and the palace reconstructed as before.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There will be joy and songs of thanksgiving,</p><p class="line2">and I will multiply my people, not diminish them;</p><p class="line1">I will honor them, not despise them.</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Their children will prosper as they did long ago.</p><p class="line1">I will establish them as a nation before me,</p><p class="line2">and I will punish anyone who hurts them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They will have their own ruler again,</p><p class="line2">and he will come from their own people.</p><p class="line1">I will invite him to approach me,” says the LORD,</p><p class="line2">“for who would dare to come unless invited?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You will be my people,</p><p class="line2">and I will be your God.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Look! The LORD’s anger bursts out like a storm,</p><p class="line2">a driving wind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The fierce anger of the LORD will not diminish</p><p class="line2">until it has finished all he has planned.</p><p class="line1">In the days to come</p><p class="line2">you will understand all this.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">30:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Jacob;</span><span class="ft"> also in 30:10b, 18. See note on 5:20.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">30:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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