6. Ask now, and see,Whether a man is ever in labor with child?So why do I see every man with his hands on his loinsLike a woman in labor,And all faces turned pale?
7. Alas! For that day is great,So that none is like it;And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,But he shall be saved out of it.
8. ‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’Says the Lord of hosts,‘That I will break his yoke from your neck,And will burst your bonds;Foreigners shall no more enslave them.
9. But they shall serve the Lord their God,And David their king,Whom I will raise up for them.