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Jeremiah 30:5

Good News Translation

“I heard a cry of terror, a cry of fear and not of peace.

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When that day comes, they will roar over Israel as loudly as the sea. Look at this country! Darkness and distress! The light is swallowed by darkness.

We are frightened and distressed. We long for God to save us from oppression and wrong, but nothing happens.

Across all the desert highlands people have come to plunder. I have sent war to destroy the entire land; no one can live in peace.

You moan and cry out in distress because the Lord in his anger has destroyed your nation and left your peaceful country in ruins.

The Lord says to the people of Israel and Judah,

“But what do I see?” asks the Lord. “They are turning back in terror. Their soldiers are beaten back; overcome with fear, they run as fast as they can and do not look back.

The Lord says, “People are coming from a country in the north; a mighty nation far away is preparing for war.

The Lord says to his people, “Put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter tears as you would for an only child, because the one who comes to destroy you will suddenly attack.

Our enemies are already in the city of Dan; we hear the snorting of their horses. The whole land trembles when their horses neigh. Our enemies have come to destroy our land and everything in it, our city and all its people.”

Listen! Throughout the land I hear my people crying out, “Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is Zion's king no longer there?” The Lord, their king, replies, “Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?”

Listen to the sound of crying in Zion: “We are ruined! We are completely disgraced! We must leave our land; our homes have been torn down.”

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

They treat kings with contempt and laugh at high officials. No fortress can stop them—they pile up earth against it and capture it.

I am bringing the Babylonians to power, those fierce, restless people. They are marching out across the world to conquer other lands.




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