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Ask now, and see: Can a man give birth to a child?
Why, then, do I see every strong man holding his stomach in pain
like a woman giving birth to a child?
Why has every face turned pale?
How terrible that day will be!
There will be no other day like it.
It will be a time of calamity for the descendants of Jacob,
but they will be rescued from it.

“On that day,” declares the Lord of Armies, “I will break the yokes [a] off your necks and tear off your ropes. Foreigners will no longer make you serve them.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:8 A yoke   is a wooden bar placed over the necks of work animals so that they can pull plows or carts.

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