King James Version
Jeremiah 30:7 in the King James Version says “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 ...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 30:7 · KJV
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
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
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.
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:
But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“none is like it it is even the time”
H6256time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses
“but he shall be saved”
H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
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