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Jeremiah 30:7
How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah delivers this as a prophetic word to the exiled community of Judah, bracketed by a picture of universal anguish (v. 6) and the promise that the yoke will be broken (v. 8).
The words — ה֗וֹי (hōy) is a bare exclamation of alarm, a woe-cry that names the day before describing it. מֵ/אַ֣יִן (mēʾāyîn) means "from nothing," so the literal sense is "there is not [anyone] like it" — the day has no precedent.
The thread — Daniel 12:1 uses the same phrase "time of distress" (עֵת צָרָה) for an end-time crisis, and Malachi 4:1 pairs a coming day of severity with the survival of the righteous.
Why it lands — The verse refuses to let the reader settle on either the horror or the rescue; it names both in a single breath and offers no easing between them.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Daniel 12:1 “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
- Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Daniel 9:12 You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 14:1 Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
- Joel 2:11 The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?
- Matthew 24:21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unseen from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
- Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Mark 13:19 For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
- Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
- Jeremiah 30:10 As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.