Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid; 1 pangs and chavalim (pains) shall take hold of them; 1 they shall be in pain like a woman that travaileth in childbirth; 1 one shall be aghast at his re'a; 1 their faces shall be like flaming visages. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7Therefore shall kol yadayim (all hands) fall weak, 1 and kol levav enosh shall melt; 1
Cross References
Psalms 48:7Trembling took hold upon them sham (there), 1 and pain, as of a woman in labor. 1
Isaiah 26:17Like a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, 1 in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; 1 so have we been in Thy sight, Hashem. 1
Jeremiah 30:6Ask ye now, and see 1 whether a zachar (male) doth travail with child? 1 Why do I see every gever 1 with his hands on his stomach, 1 like a woman in labor, 1 and all faces are turned deadly pale? 1
Daniel 5:5In the same hour came forth fingers of a manʼs yad (hand), and wrote opposite the menorah upon the plaster of the wall of the kingʼs heikhal, and the king saw the part of the yad that wrote.
Nahum 2:10Take ye the plunder of kesef, take the plunder of zahav; 1 for there is no end of the treasures, 1 heaps of kol keli chemdah (every delightful vessel). 1
1 Thessalonians 5:3Whenever they say, “Shalom and Bitachon!” then sudden churban (destruction) will come upon them like the chevlei leydah (birth pangs) of the isha with a baby in her womb. And they can certainly 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 →