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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.
- NASB ‘Woe, for that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s distress, Yet he will be saved from it.
- NLT In all history there has never been such a time of terror. It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel. Yet in the end they will be saved!
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Quick answer
This unequaled day is called 'the time of Jacob's trouble,' yet God promises His people will be saved out of it. Judgment will not be the final word.
Overview
This pivotal verse names a uniquely terrible day of distress for God's people, yet pledges their salvation through it. Many see here a pattern fulfilled both in the return from exile and, more fully, in God's final deliverance of His people. The promise that Jacob 'shall be saved out of it' shows that God preserves His own even in the darkest hour.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 28
- Dan 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.
- Mal 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.”
- Zech 14:1–2Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
- Dan 9:12You 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.
- Matt 24:21–22For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
- Joel 2:11The 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?
- Rom 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Mark 13:19For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
- Zeph 1:14–18The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.
- Hos 1:11Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
- Jer 30:10As 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.
- Lam 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
- Jer 50:18–20Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
- Ezek 7:6–12The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
- Hos 12:2–4The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
- Ps 25:22Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress.
- Amos 5:18–20Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Rev 6:17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
- Gen 32:7In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
- Lam 4:6The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.
- Lam 2:13What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
- Acts 2:20The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.
- Jer 50:33–34This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
- Isa 14:1–2For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
- Isa 2:12–22For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—
- Gen 32:24–30So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
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