Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jeremiah 30:1-2

"The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book." — Jeremiah 30:1-2 (ASV)

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

We believe in verbal inspiration. Though some people treat with contempt the very idea of words being inspired, be sure of this: if you do not have inspired words, you are not likely to get inspired men.

Besides, words are to the thought what the shell is to the egg; if you break the shell, you have destroyed the egg. Somehow or other, the thought will ooze out unless it is conveyed in God’s own words.

Observe that the Lord does not say to Jeremiah, Write thee all the thought that I have given thee; but, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

Too good to be lost. The prophets said much when they did not write, and this particular chapter and the next were to be carefully written down. God here begins to deal with His guilty people in a way of love and mercy. It is a very remarkable chapter, one of the richest, one of the most cheering in the whole of God's Word.

Therefore, write it in a book.