Jeremiah 30:6

Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

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In The King James Version

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

In Context

5This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

7Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:6Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

Isaiah 29:22For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.

Jeremiah 6:24The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

Jeremiah 22:23O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

Jeremiah 50:43The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

Hosea 13:13The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 30:2-10

Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 594.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. 3 For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord : and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 4 And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.… Read the whole commentary →

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