Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; 1 pains like the pains of a woman in labor have taken hold of me; 1 I am bowed down by what I heard; I am disturbed by what I saw. 1

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Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

In Context

2A distressing vision has been given to me: 1 the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. 1 Go up and attack, Elam; besiege, Media; 1 I will stop all her groaning. 1

4My heart pounds; I shake with fear. 1 Twilight was my desire, but it brought me terror. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, 'I wish it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'I wish it were morning!' because of the fear in your hearts and the things your eyes will have to see.

Isaiah 13:8They will be terrified; pain and agony will seize them, like a woman in labor. 1 They will look in astonishment at one another; their faces will be aflame. 1

Isaiah 16:9Indeed I will weep along with Jazer for the vineyard of Sibmah. 1 I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh. 1 For on your fields of summer fruits and harvest I have ended the shouts of joy. 1

Isaiah 26:17As a pregnant woman nears the time for her to give birth, 1 when she is in pain and cries out in her labor pains, 1 so we have been before you, Lord. 1

Jeremiah 49:22See, someone will attack like an eagle, and swoop down and spread his wings over Bozrah. 1 Then on that day, the hearts of Edom's soldiers will become like the heart of a woman in birth labor.” 1

Daniel 5:5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared in front of the lampstand and wrote on the plaster wall in the king's palace. The king could see part of the hand as it wrote.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11

The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was… Read the whole commentary →

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