- Bible
- Jeremiah
- Chapter 30
- Verse 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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
That day - i. e., the day of the capture of Babylon. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble - Rather, and it is a time of trouble to Jacob, i. e., of anxiety to the Jews, for the usages of war were so…
Here, I. Jeremiah is directed to write what God had spoken to him, which perhaps refers to all the foregoing prophecies. He must write them and publish them, in hopes that those who had not profited…
Cambridge Bible
that day The expression "the day of the Lord," in an eschatological sense, is found first in Amos (Jer 5:18), and is adopted by later prophets. Its meaning is developed in two directions according to…
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