Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

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Alas! For that day is great,
    there is none like it.[a]
And it is a time of distress for Jacob,
    yet from it he will be delivered.
And it will happen on that day,’ declares[b] Yahweh of hosts,
    ‘I will break his yoke from your neck
and your bonds I will tear to pieces.
    And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave.
But they will serve Yahweh their God,
    and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:7 Literally “from none like it”
  2. Jeremiah 30:8 Literally “a declaration of”