The King James Version Bible

Jeremiah 30:1-8

  1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

  2. Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

  3. For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

  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: