Introduction to the Book of Consolation

30:1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah.1 30:2 “The Lord God of Israel says,2 ‘Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll.3 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