Yeremia 30:10

30:10 So I, the Lord, tell you not to be afraid,

you descendants of Jacob, my servants. ¹ 

Do not be terrified, people of Israel.

For I will rescue you and your descendants

from a faraway land where you are captives. ² 

The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.

They will be secure and no one will terrify them. ³ 

Yehezkiel 28:26

28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely ⁴  when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”

Yehezkiel 39:26

39:26 They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.

Hosea 11:11

11:11 They will return in fear and trembling ⁵ 

like birds from Egypt,

like doves from Assyria,

and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord.

Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ⁶  land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

Zefanya 3:13

3:13 The Israelites who remain ⁷  will not act deceitfully.

They will not lie,

and a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouth.

Indeed, they will graze peacefully like sheep ⁸  and lie down;

no one will terrify them.”

Zakharia 14:11

14:11 And people will settle there, and there will no longer be the threat of divine extermination – Jerusalem will dwell in security.

[30:10]  ¹ tn Heb “So do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, oracle of the Lord.” Here and elsewhere in the verse the terms Jacob and Israel are poetic for the people of Israel descended from the patriarch Jacob. The terms have been supplied throughout with plural referents for greater clarity.

[30:10]  ² tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

[30:10]  ³ sn Compare the ideals of the Mosaic covenant in Lev 26:6, the Davidic covenant in 2 Sam 7:10-11, and the new covenant in Ezek 34:25-31.

[28:26]  ⁴ sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.

[11:11]  ⁵ tn For the meaning of חָרַד (harad, “to tremble”) with prepositions of direction, see 11:10 above.

[9:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:13]  ⁷ tn Or “the remnant of Israel.”

[3:13]  ⁸ tn The words “peacefully like sheep” are supplied in the translation for clarification.