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

[b]For in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will break [c]his yoke from off thy neck, and break thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves [d]of him.

But they shall serve the Lord their God, and [e]David their King, whom I will raise up unto them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:7 Meaning, that the time of their captivity should be grievous.
  2. Jeremiah 30:8 When I shall visit Babylon.
  3. Jeremiah 30:8 Of the King of Babylon.
  4. Jeremiah 30:8 To wit, of Jacob.
  5. Jeremiah 30:9 That is, Messiah which should come of the stock of David, according to the flesh and should be the true pastor, as Ezek. 34:23, who is set forth and his kingdom that should be everlasting in the person of David, Hos. 3:5.

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