Jeremiah 30:7

7 'Alas! for that ¹day is great, There is ²none like it; And it is the time of Jacob's ³distress, But he will be ⁴saved from it.

Jeremiah 30:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas! for that day [is] great
For sorrow and distress: so that none [is] like it;
such were the times of Jerusalem's siege and destruction by the Romans; and which was an emblem of those times of trouble from antichrist in the latter day; see ( Matthew 24:21 Matthew 24:22 ) ( Daniel 12:1 Daniel 12:2 ) ; it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble:
of the church and people of God, the true Israel of God; when Popery will be the prevailing religion in Christendom; when the outward court shall be given to the Gentiles; the witnesses shall be slain; antichrist will be "in statu quo"; and the whore of Rome in all her glory; though it shall not last long: but he shall be saved out of it;
shall come out of those great tribulations into a very happy and comfortable estate; the spirit of life shall enter into the witnesses, and they shall live and ascend to heaven; the vials of God's wrath will be poured upon the antichristian states; the kings of the earth will hate the whore, and burn her with fire; the Gospel will be preached everywhere; the Jews will be converted, and the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in; and an end be put to all trouble; of which there will be no more, nor any occasion of it: or, "therefore he shall be saved out of it" ^F18; as the effect of the divine compassion to him in such great trouble.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (evwy hnmmw) "ideo ex eo servabitur", Schmidt.

Jeremiah 30:7 In-Context

5 "For thus says the LORD , 'I have heard a sound of terror, Of dread, and there is no peace.

6 'Ask now, and see If a male can give birth. Why do I see every man With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth? And why have all faces turned pale?

7 'Alas! for that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob's distress, But he will be saved from it.

8 'It shall come about on that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'that I will break his yoke from off their neck and will tear off their bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.

9 'But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 2:12; Hosea 1:11; Joel 2:11; Amos 5:18; Zephaniah 1:14
• 2. Lamentations 1:12; Daniel 9:12; Daniel 12:1
• 3. Jeremiah 2:27, 28; Jeremiah 14:8
• 4. Jeremiah 30:10; Jeremiah 50:19