2 Thus hath the Lord God of Israel spoken, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
3 For, Behold, the days come, said the Lord, that I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said the Lord, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4 And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 For thus hath the Lord said; We have heard a voice of trembling, of terror, and not of peace.
6 Ask now, and see whether the man doth travail with child? for I have seen that every man has his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces have turned pale.
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.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of the hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no longer place him in servitude,