Listen, a roar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord, dealing retribution to his enemies!
For the Lord comes out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it and will no longer cover its slain.
For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of vindication for Zion’s cause.
According to their deeds, so will he repay wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.
And he said: The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither, and the top of Carmel dries up.
She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth.