Jeremiah 4:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

I have heard

Spreadeth

Isaiah 1:15

Lamentations 1:17

For my

Genesis 27:46

Job 10:1

Because

General references

Isaiah 26:17

Bible References

I have heard

We have heard the report! Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us! We have pain like a woman in childbirth.

What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Will pain grip you like a woman in labor?

You who dwell in Lebanon nested in the cedars. How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!

Ask now and see: Can a man give birth to a child? Why, then, do I see every strong man holding his stomach in pain like a woman giving birth to a child? Why has every face turned pale?

The towns of Moab will be captured. The strong walled cities will be defeated. Then Moab's warriors will be frightened like a woman who is giving birth.'

The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.

The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and he loses courage. Anguish will grip him as pain grips a woman in labor.

They will be terrified! Pains and anguish will possess them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in amazement with their faces reddened with excitement (aflame).

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor.

They have the opportunity to live again, but they are not smart enough to take it. They are like a baby who is about to be born but will not come out of its mother's womb.

When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

Spreadeth

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood.

Zion's hands are outstretched. She has no comforter. Jehovah gave orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem is an unclean (abhorrent) thing among them.

For my

Rebekah said to Isaac: I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.

I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.

Because

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'

Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

See, O Jehovah, I am in trouble. The inmost parts of my body are deeply moved. My heart is turned in me for I have been rebellious. Outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

Both young and old lie dead in the streets. Enemy swords kill young men and women. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.

I heard God say to the other men: Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one! Have mercy on no one.

The Lord Jehovah says: 'Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

General references

Like a woman with child and about to give birth struggles and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Jehovah.