Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labour. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.
Jeremiah 6:24 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised We have heard about it, and our hands have become weak. Distress has seized us – pain, like a woman in labour. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition We have heard the report of it; our hands become feeble and helpless. Anguish has taken hold of us, pangs like that of a woman in childbirth. American Standard Version (1901) We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail. Common English Bible We have heard reports of them and are panic-stricken; distress overwhelms us, pain like that of a woman in labor. Catholic Public Domain Version 'We have heard of their fame. Our hands have become weakened. Tribulation has overtaken us, like the pains of a woman giving birth.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor. |
Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labour. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.
Every time it passes through, it will carry you away; it will pass through every morning – every day and every night. Only terror will cause you to understand the message.
What will you say when he appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won’t labour pains seize you, as they do a woman in labour?
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labour.
Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labour and every face turned pale?
I hear a cry like a woman in labour, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: ‘Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers! ’
The towns have been captured, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
Damascus has become weak; she has turned to run; panic has gripped her. Distress and labour pains have seized her like a woman in labour.
The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him – pain, like a woman in labour.
All their hands will become weak, and all their knees will run with urine. ,
Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face turned pale, and his nobles were bewildered.
I heard, and I trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress to come against the people invading us.
When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.