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The Lord said,

‘People are shouting because they are afraid!
    Listen to them!
    There is no peace anywhere.
Think carefully about this.
    Do men ever give birth to babies?
So why are these strong men weak with pain?
    They seem like a woman who is giving birth.
All their faces have become white with fear.
It will be a time of terrible trouble,
    worse than anything that has happened before.
It will be a time of great trouble for Jacob's descendants.[a]
    But I will rescue them from their trouble.’

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Footnotes

  1. 30:7 Jacob was the ancestor of all the Israelites.

“This is what the Lord says:

“‘Cries of fear(A) are heard—
    terror, not peace.
Ask and see:
    Can a man bear children?
Then why do I see every strong man
    with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,(B)
    every face turned deathly pale?(C)
How awful that day(D) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble(E) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved(F) out of it.

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