Jeremiah 30:1–3, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
Jeremiah 30:1–3
A Written Restoration Collection Is Commissioned
Write the words in a book, because days are coming for Israel and Judah
The LORD says to Jeremiah, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days come that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
The notice commissions a written restoration collection. Israel and Judah are both named. The land given to their fathers is the horizon of return, not a modern deed the reader can wave.
A writing command does not solve the whole book's composition
That Jeremiah is told to write here does not date every chapter, erase variant ancient editions, or prove that the present book is this scroll and nothing else.
What the unit does prove is the intent: restoration speech is to be kept because return is coming for both houses. Preservation is hope, not a museum label.
How this should shape us
Keep restoration words in durable form so a long wait cannot erase them. Name Israel and Judah as the promised returnees; do not smuggle in a replacement people at the doorway of the book of comfort.
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Best judgment: The writing notice does not settle the composition of the entire book or erase its variant ancient editions.
How certain? probableResearch trail and exact locationsThe source record behind this section
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Jeremiah 30:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 30:1–3
Supports: Verse-level controls for Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, dates, names, textual problems, and material translation alternatives.
Official NET Bible Jeremiah PDF, pp. 1258-1459, translator, study, and textual notes attached to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Supports: Reader-oriented historical, literary, theological, and pastoral synthesis with ancient-to-modern limits.
Enter the Bible Jeremiah course, Outline and Themes: restoration, new covenant, field, Baruch scroll, siege, and fall; applied to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Supports: Current university-level literary-historical synthesis and explicit composition questions.
Yale Bible Study, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Jeremiah Part 2 study guide, pp. 1-6: prophetic conflict, politics, exile, and restoration; applied to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Supports: Controls the shorter and differently ordered Old Greek Jeremiah, Qumran Hebrew evidence, and competing edition-history proposals without making one reconstruction certain.
Cook, 'The text-critical and exegetical value of the Dead Sea Scrolls,' section 'The books of Jeremiah (4QJerd),' HTS 72.4 (2016), article pp. 3-4; applied to Jeremiah 30:1–3
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 30:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 30:1–3
Open the fixed Hebrew Jeremiah file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Jeremiah with Translator, Textual, and Study Notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; official eBible PDF distribution, NET Bible Second Edition; official PDF accessed 2026
Supports: Verse-level controls for Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, dates, names, textual problems, and material translation alternatives.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Jeremiah PDF, pp. 1258-1459, translator, study, and textual notes attached to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Open the official NET Jeremiah PDF ↗modern scholarly book course
Jeremiah: Summary, Outline, Background, Introductory Issues, Themes, and Bible in the World
Terence E. Fretheim and Michael Chan
Enter the Bible, Luther Seminary, current public course accessed 2026
Supports: Reader-oriented historical, literary, theological, and pastoral synthesis with ancient-to-modern limits.
Exact location: Enter the Bible Jeremiah course, Outline and Themes: restoration, new covenant, field, Baruch scroll, siege, and fall; applied to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Open the Enter the Bible Jeremiah course ↗open university study guide series
Jeremiah and Ezekiel: Jeremiah Parts 1-3 Study Guides
Joel S. Baden and Jacqueline Vayntrub
Yale Bible Study, 2024
Supports: Current university-level literary-historical synthesis and explicit composition questions.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Jeremiah Part 2 study guide, pp. 1-6: prophetic conflict, politics, exile, and restoration; applied to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Open the Yale Jeremiah and Ezekiel course ↗peer reviewed open access text critical article
The Text-Critical and Exegetical Value of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Johann Cook
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72.4, article a3280, 2016
Supports: Controls the shorter and differently ordered Old Greek Jeremiah, Qumran Hebrew evidence, and competing edition-history proposals without making one reconstruction certain.
Exact location: Cook, 'The text-critical and exegetical value of the Dead Sea Scrolls,' section 'The books of Jeremiah (4QJerd),' HTS 72.4 (2016), article pp. 3-4; applied to Jeremiah 30:1–3
Open Cook on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jeremiah ↗