💧WEB · Jeremiah 30:8

What does Jeremiah 30:8 mean?

"It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;"

— Jeremiah 30:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.

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Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

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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 will be saved out of it.

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It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;

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but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

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Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.

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For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

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