For thus saith the Lord, We have heard a [a]terrible voice, of fear and not of peace.

Demand now and behold, if man travail with child: wherefore do I behold every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into a paleness?

Alas, for this [b]day is great: none hath been like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, yet shall he be delivered from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:5 He showeth that before that this deliverance shall come, the Chaldeans should be extremely afflicted by their enemies, and that they should be in such perplexity and sorrow as a woman in her travail, as Isa. 13:8.
  2. Jeremiah 30:7 Meaning, that the time of their captivity should be grievous.

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