Jeremiah 30:12-17

New International Reader's Version

“Your wound can’t be cured.
    Your pain can’t be healed.
¹³ No one will stand up for you.
    There isn’t any medicine for your sore.
    There isn’t any healing for you.
¹⁴ All those who were going to help you have forgotten you.
    They do not care about you.
I have struck you as if I were your enemy.
    I have punished you as if I were very mean.
That is because your guilt is so great.
    You have sinned so much.
¹⁵ Why do you cry out about your wound?
    Your pain can’t be healed.
Your guilt is very great.
    And you have committed many sins.
    That is why I have done all these things to you.

¹⁶ “But everyone who destroys you will be destroyed.
    All your enemies will be forced
    to leave their countries.
Those who steal from you will be stolen from.
    I will take the belongings
    of those who take things from you.
¹⁷ But I will make you healthy again.
    I will heal your wounds,” announces the Lord.
“That’s because you have been thrown out.
    You are called Zion, the one no one cares about.”