30:11
“I am with you and I will save you”. Now remember who this is addressed to. It is addressed to a sinful people, I people who are in exile because of their sin. God saves sinful people. Now the rest of the verse talks of them being a scattered people, a people scattered by God. They would be disciplined, “but only in due measure”. God’s purpose is to save His people, and that means dealing with the sin within us.
30:12
“Your wound is incurable”, Jeremiah had said a similar thing back in Jer 10:19. The section, v12-17, is said before the promise of restoration. Before we can receive salvation we need to recognise the full extent of the problem. Humanly speaking, our wound is incurable. And let me emphasise again that in Is 53 when it says “by His wounds we are healed” it is talking above all else about the problem of sin being cured in our lives. The penalty that comes with sin, and the hold that sin has on our lives.
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