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and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.
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The Pain of Childbirth
Commentators explain that the comparison of the Babylonians' pain to a woman in labor is a common biblical metaphor. It powerfully conveys two aspects of their suffering: its extreme intensity and its shocking suddenness. For a people who felt utterly secure, God's judgment would be both overwhelming and completely unexpected.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They shall be in pain as a woman who travails - This comparison is often used in the Scriptures to denote the deepest possible pain…
16th Century
Protestant
Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. The word צירים (tzirim), being ambiguous, the Greek translators render it ambassad…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they shall be afraid Troubled, dismayed, frightened, at the sudden taking of the city, and at the sight of Cyrus's tr…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
The burden of Babylon. Here the prophet threatens the Babylonians, who had captured the two tribes. This is divided into …
