A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22
The following message came to Jeremiah from the Lord: For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write all the words I have spoken to you in a book.
For thus says the Lord:/ Incurable is your wound,/ grievous your bruise;/ There is none to plead your cause,/ no remedy for your running sore,/ no healing for you./ All your lovers have forgotten you,/ they do not seek you./ I struck you as an enemy would strike,/ punished you cruelly;/ Why cry out over your wound?/ your pain is without relief./ Because of your great guilt,/ your numerous sins,/ I have done this to you.
Thus says the Lord: / See! I will restore the tents of Jacob,/ his dwellings I will pity;/ City shall be rebuilt upon hill,/ and palace restored as it was./ From them will resound songs of praise,/ the laughter of happy men./ I will make them not few, but many;/ they will not be tiny, for I will glorify them./ His sons shall be as of old,/ his assembly before me shall stand firm;/ I will punish all his oppressors./ His leader shall be one of his own,/ and his rulers shall come from his kin./ When I summon him, he shall approach me;/ how else should one take the deadly risk/ of approaching me? says the Lord./ You shall be my people,/ and I will be your God.
The word of the Lord.
