30:3 For I, the Lord, affirm4 that the time will come when I will reverse the plight5 of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors6 and they will take possession of it once again.’ ”7
sn As the nations of Israel and Judah were united in their sin and suffered the same fate—that of exile and dispersion—cf. Jer 3:8; 5:11; 11:10, 17) so they will ultimately be regathered from the nations and rejoined under one king, a descendant of David, and regain possession of their ancestral lands. The prophets of both the eighth and seventh century looked forward to this ideal (see, e.g., Hos 1:11 (2:2HT); Isa 11:11–13; Jer 23:5–6; 30:3; 33:7; Ezek 37:15–22). This has already been anticipated in Jer 3:18.