Psalm 48:6

Good News Translation

There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

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So that evening the Syrians had fled for their lives, abandoning their tents, horses, and donkeys, and leaving the camp just as it was.

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain, pain like that of a woman in labor.

He turned pale and was so frightened that his knees began to shake.

Israel has a chance to live, but is too foolish to take it—like a child about to be born, who refuses to come out of the womb.