Returning to the Lord

30 “When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soul by doing[a] everything I am giving you today, then He will restore your fortunes,[b] have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.(A)

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  1. Deuteronomy 30:2 Lit soul according to
  2. Deuteronomy 30:3 Or will end your captivity

11 For I know the plans I have for you”(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.(B) 13 You will seek Me(C) and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I will restore your fortunes[a](D) and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will restore you to the place I deported you from.”(E)

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  1. Jeremiah 29:14 Or will end your captivity

Restoration from Captivity

30 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Write down on a scroll all the words that I have spoken to you,(A) for the days are certainly coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will restore the fortunes[a] of My people Israel and Judah”(B)—the Lord’s declaration. “I will restore them to the land I gave to their ancestors and they will possess it.”

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  1. Jeremiah 30:3 Or will end the captivity

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