These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For the LORD says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace. 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? 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.