They shall be in pain as a woman who travails - This comparison is often used in the Scriptures to denote the deepest possible pain…

Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. The word צירים (tzirim), being ambiguous, the Greek translators render it ambassad…

And they shall be afraid Troubled, dismayed, frightened, at the sudden taking of the city, and at the sight of Cyrus's tr…

We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terribl…

1. The burden of Babylon. Here the prophet threatens the Babylonians, who had captured the two tribes. This is divided into …