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Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
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A Shocking Picture of Anguish
Commentators explain that the bizarre image of men in labor-like agony—hands on their hips, faces pale—is a rhetorical device. It's meant to be shocking and unnatural to convey the sheer intensity of the terror and pain that will come upon the people. As John Calvin notes, this "monstrous" scene is designed to shake people from their spiritual complacency and show the severity of the coming distress.
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Jeremiah
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19th Century
Anglican
Thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling ... —There is a strange mingling of the divine and human elements…
Baptist
Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child?
Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in trava…
16th Century
Protestant
Both Jews and Christians distort this passage, for they apply it to the time of the Messiah. When they scarcely agree on any other part of Scriptur…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child ? &c.] Look into the histories of former times, inquire o…
Presbyterian
Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are those that the Holy Spirit teaches. These are the words God ordered to be writt…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he describes the stages of the liberation.
First, he promises them liberation from bondage to the enemy; second, from the gre…
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