TROUBLE, DISTRESS, ANGUISH — narrow, tight, constricted at its root, the same consonants that give Hebrew its word for a narrow strait or a rival wife (tzarah, a co-wife) — trouble imagined physically as a space too small to move in. ⚠ The exact two-word phrase ‘et tsarah,’ ‘a time of trouble,’ appears twice in this library at a real distance: Jeremiah 30:7, of Jacob alone, facing a day ‘so great, none is like it’ — and Daniel 12:1, of every nation on earth, ‘such as has never been since there was a nation.’ Both promise rescue on the far side of the identical phrase, one family's crisis becoming, in a later book, everyone's. → first discussed at Jer 30:7