KJV King James Version
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.
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Jeremiah 30:7
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Woe! for great is that day, without any like it, Yea, a time of adversity it is to Jacob, Yet out of it he is saved.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 30
4 And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 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.
8 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:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.
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ה֗וֹיH1945 · hoywoe!כִּ֥יH3588 · kiforגָד֛וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeהַיּ֥וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַה֖וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itמֵאַ֣יִןH369 · a.yinnothingכָּמֹ֑הוּH3644 · ke.molikeוְעֵֽת־H6256 · ettimeצָרָ֥הH6869 · bats.tsa.rahdearthהִיא֙H1931 · huhe/she/itלְיַֽעֲקֹ֔בH3290 · ya.a.qovJacobוּמִמֶּ֖נָּהH4480 · minfromיִוָּשֵֽׁעַ׃H3467 · ya.sahto save
Cross-references
Daniel 12:1And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.Zechariah 14:1-2Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.Daniel 9:12And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.Matthew 24:21-22For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.Joel 2:11And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?Romans 11:26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:Mark 13:19For [in] those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.Psalm 34:19Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.Zephaniah 1:14-18The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.Hosea 1:11Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezreel.Jeremiah 30:10Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.Jeremiah 50:18-20Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.Lamentations 1:12[Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.Ezekiel 7:6-12An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.Psalm 25:22Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.Amos 5:18-20Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.Hosea 12:2-4The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
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