King James Version
What Does Jeremiah 30:7 Mean?
“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.”
Context
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For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. of fear: or, there is fear, and not peace
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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? a man: Heb. a male
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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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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:
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But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
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Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary**8. new wine--**as if some grapes having good wine-producing juice in them, be found in a cluster which the vinedresser was about to throw away as bad, and one saith, &c.
**blessing--**that is, good wine-producing juice (compare Jud 9:13; Joe 2:14).
**so--**God will spare the godly "remnant," while the ungodly mass of the nation shall be destroyed (Is 1:9; 6:13; 10:21; 11:11, 12-16).
**my servants--**the godly remnant. But Horsley, "for the sake of my servant, Messiah."
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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