They said to him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: “Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace. It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
Isaiah 66:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Before Zion was in labour, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Before [Zion] travailed, she gave birth; before her pain came upon her, she was delivered of a male child. American Standard Version (1901) Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child. Common English Bible Before she was in labor, she gave birth. Before her pangs came upon her, she delivered a boy. Catholic Public Domain Version Before she was in labor, she gave birth. Before her time arrived for delivery, she gave birth to a male child. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came to be delivered she brought forth a man child. |
They said to him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: “Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace. It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
‘Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married woman,’ says the Lord.
When a woman is in labour, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.