Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 30:1

"The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying," — Jeremiah 30:1 (ASV)

In Jeremiah 30–39, not all written at the same time, are gathered together whatever God had revealed to Jeremiah of a more positive message for the Jewish people. This subject is “the New Covenant.” In contrast with the scrolls of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, here we have one containing the nation’s hope.

A considerable portion was written in the tenth year of Zedekiah, when famine and pestilence were prevalent in the city, its capture becoming more imminent daily, and the prophet himself was in prison. Yet even in this sad pressure of earthly troubles, Jeremiah could urge his countrymen to look courageously onward to the fulfillment of those hopes, which had so constantly in his darkest hours comforted the heart and strengthened the resolve of the Jew.

The scroll consists of three portions:

1. “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation,”Jeremiah 30–31;
2. Jeremiah 32:0; and
3. Jeremiah 33:0.