1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2. Thus speaketh the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
3. For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4. And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5. For thus saith the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?