Rashi on TanakhJeremiah 30

For, behold, days are coming And you shall not say, Why should I write it, since they all will perish, and no one will read it, neither will anyone remember it anymore, for, “behold, days are coming, etc.”

A sound of quaking we have heard Some interpret this as alluding to the tidings of Babylon, from which those exiled there quaked. But the Midrash Aggadah explains it as an allusion to the war of Gog and Magog.

whether a male gives birth Whether it is customary for males to give birth, so that labor pains should seize them like a woman in confinement.

his loins like מָתְנָיו.

that day The day of the assassination of Belshazzar and the downfall of Babylon. Another explanation: the day of the downfall of Gog.

I will break his yoke The yoke of the heathens will be removed from Israel.

And you, fear not Because of all the evils that you will see befalling Babylon in whose midst you are.

and at ease like וְֹשָקֵט.

but I will chasten you in measure according to the law of the Torah.

and I will not completely destroy you an expression of a sweeping destruction.

Your injury is painful, your wound grievous (Enfers in Old French).

to be healed cure. No one thinks that you will have salvation.

healing a cure, an expression of availing.

cruel chastisement chastisements of cruelty. The chastisement is cruel.

Therefore This is an expression denoting an oath.

those who plunder you an expression of spoil, and so did Jonathan render it: וִיהוֹן עָדַיִךְ לַעֲדִי.

healing Heb. ארכה.

and the palace The Temple.

and I will increase them I will make them a numerous nation.

and they shall not become few in number like יִמְעָטוּ.

their prince lit., his mighty one.

pledged his heart an expression of a pledge (fermaille, aatine in French).

to approach Me to war, to stop Me.

settling storm camping and dwelling an expression of “the land of the sojournings of (מְגוּרֵי)” (Gen. 37:1), and a similar case is “and a whirling (מִתְחוֹלֵל) storm” (supra 23:19) stated in the other verse is the same as this for both of them are expressions of camping.

on the head[s] of the wicked On the heads of the heathens.