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This is what the LORD says: “I hear cries of fear; there is terror and no peace.
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Now let me ask you a question: Do men give birth to babies? Then why do they stand there, ashen-faced, hands pressed against their sides like a woman in labor?
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In all history there has never been such a time of terror. It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel. Yet in the end they will be saved!
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For in that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will break the yoke from their necks and snap their chains. Foreigners will no longer be their masters.
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For my people will serve the LORD their God and their king descended from David— the king I will raise up for them.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Hebrew Jacob; also in 30:10b, 18 . See note on 5:20 .