Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; 1 They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: 1 They shall be amazed one at another; 1 Their faces shall be as flames. 1
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7Therefore shall all hands be faint, 1 And every man’s heart shall melt: 1
Cross References
Psalms 48:7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. 1
Isaiah 26:17Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, 1 Is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; 1 So have we been in thy sight, O Lord. 1
Jeremiah 30:6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? 1 Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, 1 And all faces are turned into paleness? 1
Daniel 5:5In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Nahum 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: 1 And the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, 1 And much pain is in all loins, 1 And the faces of them all gather blackness. 1
1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not 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 →