Jeremiah — Chapter 30
Synopsis: The Book of Consolation begins (chs.30-31): God will break the yoke of Babylon and restore Israel. The chastisement was for Israel's sins, but is limited; her enemies will be destroyed. The Messianic promise: a Savior will arise.
Verse 7
Alas! for that day is great, neither is there the like to it: and it is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it. 'Time of Jacob's trouble' from which he shall be saved = applied primarily to the Babylonian captivity, and prophetically by the Fathers to the period of Antichrist's persecution at the end of time.
Verse 22
And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. The covenantal formula repeated as the heart of all the consolation: the mutual ownership of God and His people. Lapide: this brief formula encapsulates the entire economy of salvation — creature and Creator restored to their original ordered relationship.