3. For behold, the days are coming,” declares Adonai, “when I will return My people Israel and Judah from exile,” declares Adonai. “I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.”
4. Now these are the words that Adonai spoke to Israel and to Judah.
5. For thus says Adonai: “We heard a sound of trembling, of dread—there is no shalom.
6. Ask now, and see whether a man can give birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman giving birth? Why have all faces turned pale?
7. Oy ! For that day is monumental. There will be none like it— a time of trouble for Jacob! Yet out of it he will be saved.