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!
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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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 shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Zech 14:1–2Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
- Dan 9:12He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
- Matt 24:21–22for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
- Joel 2:11Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
- Rom 11:26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- Mark 13:19For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
- Zeph 1:14–18The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
- Hos 1:11The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
- Jer 30:10Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.
- Lam 1:12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Jer 50:18–20Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
- Ezek 7:6–12An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
- Hos 12:2–4Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
- Ps 25:22Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.
- Amos 5:18–20“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
- Rev 6:17for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- Gen 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
- Lam 4:6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.
- Lam 2:13What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
- Acts 2:20The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
- Jer 50:33–34Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.
- Isa 14:1–2For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
- Isa 2:12–22For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
- Gen 32:24–30Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
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