Jeremiah 30:10-12
New English Translation
10 So I, the Lord, tell you not to be afraid,
you descendants of Jacob, my servants.[a]
Do not be terrified, people of Israel.
For I will rescue you and your descendants
from a faraway land where you are captives.[b]
The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.
They will be secure and no one will terrify them.[c]
11 For I, the Lord, affirm[d] that
I will be with you and will rescue you.
I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you.
But I will not completely destroy you.
I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure.
I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”[e]
The Lord Will Heal the Wounds of Judah
12 Moreover,[f] the Lord says to the people of Zion:[g]
“Your injuries are incurable;
your wounds are severe.[h]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 30:10 tn Heb “So do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, oracle of the Lord.” Here and elsewhere in the verse the terms Jacob and Israel are poetic for the people of Israel descended from the patriarch Jacob. The terms have been supplied throughout with plural referents for greater clarity.
- Jeremiah 30:10 tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”
- Jeremiah 30:10 sn Compare the ideals of the Mosaic covenant in Lev 26:6, the Davidic covenant in 2 Sam 7:10-11, and the new covenant in Ezek 34:25-31.
- Jeremiah 30:11 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 30:11 tn The translation “entirely unpunished” is intended to reflect the emphatic construction of the infinitive absolute before the finite verb.
- Jeremiah 30:12 tn The particle כִּי (ki) here is parallel to the one in v. 5 that introduces the first oracle. See the discussion in the translator’s note there.
- Jeremiah 30:12 tn The pronouns in vv. 10-17 are second feminine singular, referring to a personified entity. That entity is identified in v. 17 as Zion, which here stands for the people of Zion.
- Jeremiah 30:12 sn The wounds to the body politic are those from incursions by the enemy from the north referred to in Jer 4:6; 6:1, over which Jeremiah and even God himself have lamented (Jer 8:21; 10:19; 14:17). The enemy from the north has been identified as Babylon and as the agent of God’s punishment of his disobedient people (Jer 1:15; 4:6; 25:9).
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