Isaiah 13:8
They will be terrified; pain and anguish will seize them; they will suffer like a woman giving birth. They will look in shock at each other, their faces burning in fear.
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7Everyone's hands will fall limp, and everyone will lose their minds in panic.
Cross References
Psalms 48:7just as the strong east wind wrecks the ships from Tarshish.
Isaiah 26:17Just as a pregnant woman giving birth tosses about and cries out in pain, that's what we were like in your presence, Lord.
Jeremiah 30:6Think about it! Can men give birth? No. So why do I see every man holding his stomach with his hands like a woman in labor. Why is every face white as a sheet?
Daniel 5:5Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
Nahum 2:10Deserted, destroyed, devastated! Hearts faint, knees tremble, stomachs ache. Everyone's faces turn pale.
1 Thessalonians 5:3When people talk about peace and security suddenly they will be completely ruined. It will be just like the sudden onset of childbirth, and they certainly won't escape.
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 →