When thou art in tribulation,.... In a strange land, in the power of a foreign enemy, and used ill: and all these things are come upon thee; captivity, thraldom, hard labour, and want of the necessaries of life: even in the latter days: in their present captivity for the rejection of the Messiah: if thou turn to the Lord thy God; as the Jews will when they are converted and brought to a sense of their sin, and of their need of Christ, and seek to him as their Saviour, as they will do in the latter day, Hos 3:5. and shall be obedient unto his voice; not of the law only, but of the Gospel also, proclaiming peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation by him whom they have pierced.