4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. |
5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. |
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? |
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. |
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: |
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. |
