{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_jer030_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_jer030_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_jer030_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/jer030.htm","summary":"This is a prophetic text from the Hebrew Bible \u2014 specifically Chapter 30 of the Book of Jeremiah \u2014 belonging to the tradition of Israelite prophecy and the genre of divine oracle. The passage opens with God commanding Jeremiah to write down a promise of national restoration: the exiled peoples of Israel and Judah will be returned to their ancestral land. The central movement of the chapter is from suffering to salvation \u2014 God first acknowledges Israel's wounds as deserved punishment for its sins, describing the people's condition as incurable and abandoned, before pivoting to announce that their oppressors will themselves be destroyed and Israel will be healed. A notably distinctive claim is the promise that a future Davidic king will be raised up to rule a restored nation, and that this ruler will enjoy unique intimate access to God \u2014 framed as an almost rhetorical challenge (\"who is he that hath pledged his heart to approach unto Me?\"). The text also insists that while God will destroy the nations that scattered Israel, Israel itself will be disciplined but not annihilated, asserting a covenantal permanence that survives even divine punishment. Readers interested in messianic prophecy, the theology of exile and restoration, or the literary structure of prophetic consolation will find this chapter a concentrated example of all three.","tags":["Book of Chronicles","Hebrew Bible Translation","Jewish Publication Society Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Jeremiah 30","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":741}