NOTES for Jer 30:1-24
Now that the people of God have been led away into Exile, Jeremiah no longer denounces their sins, their apostasy from God. Now he comforts his people, promising them renewal and a return to their homeland. The promised land had always been part of God's covenant, union, and agreement with Israel. He promised to give it to Abraham and his descendants, and then to Moses and the Hebrews who followed him. In the Bible, the Holy Land is a foreshadowing of the eternal unity of man with God, of eternal life, of unceasing love (Heb 4). Now the prophet emphasizes that the land will be returned to the people not simply so that they may live on it, but for service to God, for the deepening of faith, and for a new life with God.
Applied to our life, this may mean that everything God gives, including as a result of sorrows and turning points in life, must serve our greater devotion to God, the strengthening of faith, and the renewal of love.