Be in pain, and labor to bring forth - (Literally, Writhe and burst forth), as if to say, “You must suffer, but your suffering and your joy …

Thou shalt go even to Babylon.—This prediction has naturally caused difficulty to those who doubt the power of prophets t…

For pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

They are sharp pangs, but they lead to life, and therefore they are blessed pangs a…

The Prophet blends here things in their nature entirely contrary—that the Jews were for a time to be cut off, and that afterwards they were to reco…

Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion ,
like a woman in travail