Chapter 30

The Prophet is commanded to write the same which he preacheth: ℣.4 first pensive things, ℣.8 then joyful. ℣.9 Especially in the new Testament, when God will raise David (to wit Christ) ℣.16 Who shall destroy all enemies. ℣.19 And whose Church shall be great, glorious, and perpetual.

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   This is the word, that was made to Jeremy from our Lord, saying: Lord the God of Israel, saying: Write unto

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   Thus saith our thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.

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   For behold the days come, saith our Lord: and I will convert the conversion of my people Israel and Juda, saith our Lord: and I will make them return to the land, which I gave their fathers, & they shall possess it.

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   And these are the words, that our Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Juda:

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   Because thus saith our Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.

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   Demand, and see if a man bear child? Wherefore then have I seen every man's hand upon his loin, as a woman that is in travail, and all faces are turned into the jaundice?

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   Alas, because that is a great day, neither is there the like to it: and it is the time of tribulation to Jacob, & he shall be saved out of it.

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   And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord of hosts: I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will break his bands: & strangers shall no more rule over him:

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   but they shall serve our Lord their God, & David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

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    Thou therefore my servant Jacob fear not, saith our Lord, neither be thou afraid Israel: because lo I will save thee out of a far country, and thy seed out of the land of their captivity: & Jacob shall return, and be at rest, & flow with all good things, & there shall be none whom he may fear:

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    because I am with thee, saith our Lord, to save thee: for I will make a consummation in all the Nations, in which I have dispersed thee: but thee I will not make into consummation: but I will chastise thee in judgement, that thou mayst not seem to thy self innocent.

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    Because thus saith our Lord: Thy wound is uncurable, thy stripe is very sore.

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    There is none to judge thy judgement to bind it up: there is no profit of medicines for thee.

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    All thy lovers have forgotten thee, & will not seek thee: for with the stroke of an enemy I have strucken thee with cruel chastisement: for the multitude of thine iniquity, thy sins are hardened.

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    What criest thou upon thine affliction? Thy sorrow is uncurable: for the multitude of thine iniquity, & for thine hardened sins I have done these things to thee.

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    Therefore all that eat thee, shall be devoured: and all thine enemies shall be led into captivity: and they that waste thee, shall be wasted, and all thy spoilers will I give to the spoil.

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    For I will close up thy wound, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith our Lord. Because they have called thee, o Sion, an out cast: This is she, that had none to seek after her.

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    Thus saith our Lord: Behold I will convert the conversion of the tabernacles of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, & the city shall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded according to the order thereof.

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    And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished: and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.

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    And his children shall be as from the beginning, and his assembly shall be permanent before me: and I will visit against all that afflict him.

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    And his duke shall be of himself: and the prince shall be brought forth from the midst of him: and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me. For who is this, that applieth his heart to approach unto me, saith our Lord?

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    And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.

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    Behold, the whirlwind of our Lord, the fury going forth, the storm violently falling, it shall light upon the head of the impious.

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    Our Lord will not turn away the wrath of indignation, till he have done and accomplished the cogitation of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.