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Verse [Jeremiah 30:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/1). ***The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord*** — This prophecy was delivered about *a year after the taking of Jerusalem*; so *Dahler*. Dr. *Blayney* supposes it and the following chapter to refer to the *future restoration* of both *Jews* and *Israelites* in the times of the Gospel; though also touching at the restoration from the *Babylonish captivity*, at the end of *seventy* years. Supposing these two chapters to be penned after the taking of Jerusalem, which appears the most natural, they will refer to the same events, *one captivity* shadowing forth *another*, and *one* *restoration* being the *type* or *pledge* of the *second*.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/2). ***Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee**********in a book.*** — The *book* here recommended I believe to be the *thirtieth* and *thirty-first* chapters; for among the Hebrews any portion of writing, in which the subject was *finished*, however small, was termed ספר *sepher*, a BOOK, a *treatise* or *discourse.*
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Verse [Jeremiah 30:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/3). ***The days come*** — *First*, After the conclusion of the *seventy* years. *Secondly*, Under the *Messiah*.
***That I will bring again the captivity of Israel*** — The *ten tribes*, led captive by the king of *Assyria*, and dispersed among the *nations*.
***And Judah*** — The people carried into *Babylon* at *two different* *times*; first, under *Jeconiah*, and, secondly, under *Zedekiah*, by Nebuchadnezzar.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/5). ***We have heard a voice of trembling*** — This may refer to the state and feelings of the people during the war which Cyrus carried on against the Babylonians. *Trembling* and *terror* would no doubt affect them, and put an end to *peace* and all prosperity; as they could not tell what would be the issue of the struggle, and whether their state would be better or worse should their present masters fall in the conflict. This is well described in the next verse, where *men* are represented as being, through pain and anguish, like *women in travail*. See the same comparison [Isaiah 13:6-8](../../../kjv/isaiah/13/6-8).

Verse [Jeremiah 30:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/7). ***Alas! for that day*****is*****great*** — When the Medes and Persians with all their forces shall come on the Chaldeans, it will be *the day of Jacob's trouble*-trial, dismay, and uncertainty; but *he shall be delivered out of it*-the Chaldean empire shall fall, but the Jews shall be delivered by Cyrus. Jerusalem shall be destroyed by the Romans, but the *Israel of God* shall be delivered from its ruin. Not one that had embraced Christianity perished in the sackage of that city.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/8). ***I will break his yoke*** — That is, the yoke of *Nebuchadnezzar*.
***Of him.*** — Of *Jacob*, ([Jeremiah 30:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/7),) viz., the then captive Jews.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/9). ***But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David**********their King*** — This must refer to the *times of the Messiah*; and hence the *Chaldee* has, "They shall obey the Lord their God, וישת מאון למשיחה בר דוד *veyishta meun limschicha bar David*, and they shall obey the Messiah, the Son of David." This is a very remarkable version; and shows that it was a version, not according to the *letter*, but according to their *doctrine* and their *expectation*. David was long since dead; and none of his descendants ever reigned over them after the Babylonish captivity, nor have they since been a *regal nation*. *Zerubbabel*, under the Persians, and the *Asmoneans*, can be no exception to this. They have been *no nation* since; they are no nation now; and it is only in the *latter days* that they can expect to be a *nation*, and that must be a *Christian nation*.
Christ is promised under the name of his progenitor, *David*, [Isaiah 55:3-4](../../../kjv/isaiah/55/3-4); [Ezekiel 34:23-24](../../../kjv/ezekiel/34/23-24); [Ezekiel 37:24-25](../../../kjv/ezekiel/37/24-25); [Hosea 3:5](../../../kjv/hosea/3/5).

Verse [Jeremiah 30:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/11). ***Though I make a full end of all nations*** — Though the Persians destroy the nations whom they vanquish, yet they shall not destroy *thee*.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/12). ***Thy bruise*****is*****incurable*** — אנוש *anush, desperate*, not *incurable*; for the *cure* is promised in [Jeremiah 30:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/17), *I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy* *wounds*.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/13). **There is*****none to plead thy cause*** — All thy friends and allies have forsaken thee.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/15). ***Thy sorrow*****is*****incurable*** — אנוש *anush, desperate*. See [Jeremiah 30:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/12).

Verse [Jeremiah 30:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/16). ***They that devour thee*** — The Chaldeans.
***Shall be devoured*** — By the *Medes* and *Persians*.
***All that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.*** — The *Assyrians* were destroyed by the *Babylonians*; the *Babylonians*, by the *Medes* and *Persians*; the *Egyptians* and *Persians* were destroyed by the *Greeks*, under Alexander. All these nations are now *extinct*; but the *Jews*, as a distinct people, still exist.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/18). ***The city shall be builded upon her own heap*** — Be re-edified from its own *ruins*. See the book of *Nehemiah, passim*.
***And the palace shall remain*** — Meaning, the *king's house* shall be restored; or, more probably, the *temple shall be rebuilt*; which was true, for after the Babylonish captivity it was rebuilt by Nehemiah, &c. By the *tents*, distinguished from the *dwelling-places* *of Jacob*, we may understand all *the minor dispersions of the Jews*, as well as those *numerous synagogues* found in large cities.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/19). ***I will multiply them*** — They shall be *very numerous*; even where at present they have but *tents*.
***I will also glorify them*** — I will put *honour* upon them every where, so that they shall be no longer *contemptible*. This will be a very great *change*, for they are now *despised* all over the earth.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/20). ***Their children also*** — They shall have the education of their own children as formerly.
***And their congregation*** — Their religious *assemblies*.
***Shall be established*** — Being, in the latter days, incorporated with those "who serve the Lord their God, and worship the Messiah, the son of David."

Verse [Jeremiah 30:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/21). ***Their nobles shall be of themselves*** — *Strangers* shall not rule over them; and-
***Their governor shall proceed from the midst of them*** — Both *Nehemiah* and *Zerubbabel*, their nobles and governors after the return from Babylon, were *Jews*.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/22). ***Ye shall be my people*** — The *old covenant* shall be renewed.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/23). ***The whirlwind of the Lord*** — A grievous tempest of desolation,-
***Shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.*** — On Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans.

Verse [Jeremiah 30:24](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/24). ***In the latter days ye shall consider it.*** — By the *latter days* the Gospel dispensation is generally meant; and that restoration which is the principal topic in this and the succeeding chapter refers to this time. Had the Jews properly *considered* this subject, they would long ere this have been brought into the liberty of the Gospel, and saved from the maledictions under which they now groan. Why do not the Jews read their own prophets more conscientiously?

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