Jeremiah 30:12–17

Healing Zion’s Wounds

12 For this is what the Lord says:

Your injury is incurable;

your wound most severe. v

13 No one takes up the case for your sores. w

There is no healing for you.

14 All your lovers have forgotten you; x

they no longer look for you,

for I have struck you as an enemy would,

with the discipline y of someone cruel, z

because of your enormous * guilt

and your innumerable sins. a

15 Why do you cry out about your injury?

Your pain has no cure!

I have done these things to you

because of your enormous guilt

and your innumerable sins.

16 Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured, b

and all your adversaries—all of them—

will go off into exile.

Those who plunder you will be plundered,

and all who raid you will be raided. c

17 But I will bring you health d

and will heal you of your wounds—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

for they call you Outcast,

* Zion whom no one cares about.