Isaiah 26:17

Like 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

In Context

16Hashem, in tzoros have they visited Thee, 1 they davened a lachash (whisper) 1 when Thy musar (chastening) was upon them. 1

18We have been with child, we have been in pain, 1 we have as it were brought forth ruach (wind); 1 we have not wrought yeshu'ot (salvation of any kind) in Eretz; 1 neither have inhabitants of the tevel (world) been born. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 48:6They saw, and ken (thus) they marvelled; 1 they were troubled, and fled. 1

Isaiah 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; 1 tzirim (pangs) have taken hold upon me, 1 as the tzirim (pangs) of a woman in labor; 1 I was bowed down at the hearing of it; 1 I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 1

Jeremiah 6:24We have heard the fame thereof; 1 our hands hang limp; 1 tzarah (anguish) hath taken hold of us, 1 and pain, as of a woman in labor. 1

John 16:21The isha (woman) when she gives birth, has agmat nefesh (grief), + 16:21 Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17; Mic 4:9; Hos 13:13 because the sha'ah (hour, time) of her has come. But when she gives birth to the yeled, she no longer has zikaron of the Tribulation because of the naches that an ish was born into the Olam Hazeh.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:13-20

Goodness of God to Israel; Israel Corrected for Sin; Prospects of the Church. ( b. c. 718.) 12 Lord , thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord , thou hast… Read the whole commentary →

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