⁶ Ask and see:
    Can a man bear children?
Then why do I see every strong man
    with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,^(A)
    every face turned deathly pale?^(B)
7 How awful that day^(C) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble^(D) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved^(E) out of it.

⁸ “‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty,
    ‘I will break the yoke^(F) off their necks
and will tear off their bonds;^(G)
    no longer will foreigners enslave them.^(H)