Then they said to him: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, rebuke and contempt. For children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength for giving birth.
Isaiah 66:7 - Tree of Life Version Before she was in labor, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a male child. 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. |
Then they said to him: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, rebuke and contempt. For children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength for giving birth.
“Sing, barren one, who has not given birth. burst into singing and shout, you who have not travailed. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married one,” says Adonai.
“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.