Today is the 17th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather. As we do every day,

gather around the Global Campfire and move forward. And so moving forward looks like

a continuation of the book of Jeremiah today. And so we'll move back to where we left off.

We're reading from the Modern English version this week.

Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 1 through 31 verse 26.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, Thus says the Lord God of Israel.

Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

For surely the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people

Israel and Judah. The Lord says, I also will cause them to return to the land that I gave

to their fathers and they shall possess it. These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning

Israel and Judah. For thus says the Lord, I have heard a sound of trembling, of fear

and not of peace. Ask now and see. Can a male labor with child? Why do I see every man

with his hands on his loins as a woman in labor and all faces turned pale? Alas, for that

day is great so that no one is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but

he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts,

but I shall break his yoke from off their neck and tear away their bonds and strangers

shall no longer make them their slaves, but they shall serve the Lord their God and David

their king whom I will raise up for them. Therefore do not fear, O my servant Jacob,

says the Lord, nor be dismayed O Israel. For I will save you from afar and your seed

from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and shall be in rest and be quiet

and no one shall make him afraid. For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you.

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