A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 30:6
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?
The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 30:4
And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
- Jeremiah 30:5
For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
- Jeremiah 30:7
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.
- Jeremiah 30:8
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:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.