Jeremiah 30:4-8

Now these are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

“For this is what the Lord says: ‘I have heard a sound of terror, Of fear, and there is no peace.

‘Ask now, and see If a male can give birth. Why do I see every man With his hands on his waist, as a woman in childbirth? And why have all faces turned pale?

‘Woe, for that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s distress, Yet he will be saved from it.

‘It shall come about on that day,’ declares the Lord of armies, ‘that I will break his yoke from their necks and will tear to pieces their restraints; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.