Understanding God's Heart For Us in Song
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
3 For, 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.’”
4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask 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?
7 Alas, 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.
8 It 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;
9 but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.