Isaiah 13:8
The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
Cross References
Psalms 48:7They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth—
Isaiah 26:17And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved.
Jeremiah 30:6For thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk it; and thou shalt by no means be cleared:
Nahum 2:10They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →