Isaiah 37:3
They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble and of punishment. It's like when babies arrive at the entrance to the birth canal but there's no strength to deliver them.
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2 Kings 19:3They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, of punishment and disgrace. It's like when babies arrive at the entrance to the birth canal but there's no strength to deliver them.
Psalms 50:15and call on me when you're in trouble. I will rescue you, and you will thank me.”
Psalms 95:8don't have a hard-hearted attitude, “as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
Isaiah 22:5For the Lord has a day of defeat, of panic and confusion in the Valley of Vision, a day of tearing down walls and crying for help to the mountains.
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.
Isaiah 33:2Lord, please be kind to us; we put our confidence in you. Be the strength we rely on every morning; be our salvation in times of trouble.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:2-8
Hezekiah's Message to Isaiah. ( b. c. 710.) 1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord . 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and… Read the whole commentary →