1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2. Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken unto you in a book.
3. For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says 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 spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5. For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6. Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.