And they will be afraid.
(A)Pangs[a] and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:8 Sharp pains

Therefore (A)my loins are filled with pain;
(B)Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I was [a]distressed when I heard it;
I was dismayed when I saw it.

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  1. Isaiah 21:3 Lit. bowed

Ask now, and see,
Whether a [a]man is ever in [b]labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
(A)Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?

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  1. Jeremiah 30:6 Lit. male can give birth
  2. Jeremiah 30:6 childbirth

Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in your midst?
Has your counselor perished?
For (B)pangs have seized you like a woman in [a]labor.

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  1. Micah 4:9 childbirth

10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to (A)Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the (B)Lord will (C)redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

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