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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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An Unparalleled Trouble
Commentators agree that "the time of Jacob's trouble" describes a period of distress so severe that "none is like it." John Calvin explains this was meant to shake the people from their complacency, as they believed Jerusalem was indestructible. The prophecy points to a catastrophe of immense emotional and physical suffering, whether viewed as the Babylonian exile or a future tribulation.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That day - that is, the day of the capture of Babylon.
It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble - Rather, and it is a time of…
19th Century
Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet continues in this verse to describe the severity of that punishment for which the people felt no concern, because they disregarded all …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Alas! for that day [is] great For sorrow and distress: so that none [is] like it; such were the…
Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are those that the Holy Spirit teaches. These are the words God ordered to be writt…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he describes the stages of the liberation.
First, he promises them liberation from bondage to the enemy; second, from the gre…
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