Jeremiah 30:3

For I, the Lord, affirm ¹  that the time will come when I will reverse the plight ²  of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors ³  and they will take possession of it once again.’” ⁴ 

De 30:3; Ezr 3:1,8,12; Ps 53:6; Jer 16:15; Jer 23:5,7; Jer 23:8; Jer 27:11; Jer 27:22; Jer 29:14; Jer 30:10,18; Jer 31:23; Jer 31:27,31,38; Jer 32:37,44; Jer 33:7-11,26; Jer 33:14,15; Eze 20:42; Eze 28:25,26; Eze 36:24; Eze 37:21-25; Eze 39:25,26; Eze 39:27,28; Eze 47:14; Joe 3:1; Am 9:14,15; Ob 1:19,20; Zep 3:20; Lu 17:22; Lu 19:43; Lu 21:6; Heb 8:8

¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “restore the fortune.” For the translation and meaning of this idiom see the note at 29:14.

³ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁴ sn As the nations of Israel and Judah were united in their sin and suffered the same fate – that of exile and dispersion – (cf. Jer 3:8; 5:11; 11:10, 17) so they will ultimately be regathered from the nations and rejoined under one king, a descendant of David, and regain possession of their ancestral lands. The prophets of both the eighth and seventh century looked forward to this ideal (see, e.g., Hos 1:11 (2:2 HT); Isa 11:11-13; Jer 23:5-6; 30:3; 33:7; Ezek 37:15-22). This has already been anticipated in Jer 3:18.