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Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his loins, (A)as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?
Alas! For that (B)day is great,
There is (C)none like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s (D)distress,
But he will be (E)saved from it.

‘And it will be in that day,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘that I will (F)break his yoke from off your neck and will tear off your (G)bonds; and strangers will no longer (H)make [a]them their slaves.

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  1. Jeremiah 30:8 Lit him their slave