For [in] (f) those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
(f) This is an idiom which the Hebrews use and it has a great power in it, for it shows us that during that entire time one misery will follow another in such a way as if the time itself was very misery itself. So the prophet Amos says that the day of the Lord will be darkness; (Amos 5:20).