⁷ 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.
⁸ 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.
⁹ But they will serve Yahweh their God,
    and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.