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.

Alas {H1945}! for that day {H3117} is great {H1419}, so that {H369} none is like it: it is even the time {H6256} of Jacob's {H3290} trouble {H6869}; but he shall be saved {H3467} out of it.

How dreadful that day will be! - there has never been one like it: a time of trouble for Ya'akov, but out of it he will be saved.

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.

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.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Daniel 12:1 (17 votes)

    ¶ And 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 4:1 (12 votes)

    ¶ For, 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.

  • Daniel 9:12 (11 votes)

    And 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.

  • Zechariah 14:1 (10 votes)

    ¶ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

  • Zechariah 14:2 (10 votes)

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • Matthew 24:21 (9 votes)

    For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

  • Matthew 24:22 (9 votes)

    And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.