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Jeremiah 30:18
This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses Jacob (Israel/Zion) in a restoration oracle, framed between the promise of healing (v. 17) and the promise of increase and honor (v. 19).
The words — שְׁבוּת (shevut) carries both "captivity" and "return" in a single noun; the verb שָׁב (shav) behind it means "turn back," so the form holds the exile and its reversal together.
The thread — Jeremiah 30:3 uses the identical restoration-from-captivity formula; Psalms 102:13 ties compassion on Zion to an appointed time; Haggai 2:7 looks to the filling of the house with glory as the nations' treasures arrive.
Why it lands — The verse escalates from tents to city to palace, asking the reader to see restoration as a reordering of the entire dwelling structure, not merely a personal comfort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
Cross-references
- Haggai 2:7 I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Psalms 102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
- Jeremiah 30:3 For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
- Jeremiah 33:7 I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.
- Jeremiah 49:39 “Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 23:3 Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
- Zechariah 1:16 Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
- Jeremiah 46:27 But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 49:6 Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 44:26 who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’