What Does Jeremiah 30:3 Mean in the King James?

For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Jeremiah 30:3 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The Hebrew uses forms of shuv for both “bring again” and “return,” making the people’s homecoming the visible shape of their restoration.

THE MEANING

As you read, the verse presents the LORD’s promised restoration of Israel and Judah as tangible: their captivity is turned, they return to the land given to their fathers, and they possess it. Displacement does not erase the people’s belonging or the land’s place in the promise.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

That Israel and Judah’s displacement is permanent, with no return to the land given to them; this verse names return and possession as the LORD’s promise.

THE ROOT

וְשַׁבְתִּי

wəšabtî wahăšîḇōṯîm

GROWS FROM

שׁוב

sh-w-b

to turn back, return, or restore

“bring again; return” in this verse is wəšabtî wahăšîḇōṯîm. The KJV’s “bring again” and “return” are forms of the same root, shuv. One names the LORD’s act of restoring the people’s condition; the other names their movement home, so return is restoration made visible.

ALSO GROWS

shuv: to turn or return

שׁוּב

This is the verb behind both the restoration and the people’s return in the verse.

meshubah: turning away; backsliding

מְשׁוּבָה

The same root can describe turning away; here its direction is reversed toward return and home.

וִירֵשׁוּהָ

wîrēšûhā

GROWS FROM

ירשׁ

y-r-sh

to take possession of, inherit, or dispossess

The verb translated “possess” also carries the sense of inheritance and taking up an allotment. The promised return ends not merely in arrival, but in inhabiting the land given to them.

ALSO GROWS

yerushah: inheritance; possession

יְרֻשָּׁה

This noun makes the inheritance sense of “possess” explicit.

morashah: heritage; inherited possession

מוֹרָשָׁה

This branch connects possession with what is received as an inheritance.

THE PATTERN

Restoration gathers the displaced back into their rightful place and reopens what seemed lost.

That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

Deuteronomy 30:3 · KJVThe LORD turns captivity and gathers the scattered people back, using the same return language as Jeremiah.

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

Ezekiel 37:21 · KJVThe gathered people are brought back into their own land, echoing Jeremiah’s concrete picture of restoration.

Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Acts 3:21 · KJVThe promise of restitution opens the pattern outward to the restoration of all things.

THE THREAD

That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

Deuteronomy 30:3 · KJV

Deuteronomy repeats the shuv return-language: the LORD turns the captivity, then returns and gathers the people. Jeremiah makes the destination explicit, their return ends in possessing the land given to their fathers.

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