Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in labor.
New American Standard Bible
Our hands are limp.
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
King James Version
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Holman Bible
and we are discouraged.
Distress has seized us—
pain like a woman in
International Standard Version
We have heard the news about it, and our hands are limp. Distress has seized us like a woman in labor.
A Conservative Version
We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
American Standard Version
We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Amplified
We have heard the report of it;
Our hands become limp and helpless.
Anguish has gripped us,
Pain like that of a woman in childbirth.
Bible in Basic English
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Darby Translation
We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.
Julia Smith Translation
We heard its report: our hands were relaxed; straits held us, pain as of her bringing forth
King James 2000
We have heard the report of it: our hands grow feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a [woman who] gives birth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then shall this cry be heard, "Our arms are feeble! Heaviness and sorrow is come upon us, as upon a woman travailing with child!
NET Bible
The people cry out, "We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!
New Heart English Bible
"We have heard its report; our hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.
The Emphasized Bible
We have heard the report thereof, Relaxed are our hands, - Anguish, hath taken hold on us, Pangs, as on her that is giving birth.
Webster
We have heard the fame of it: our hands become feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
World English Bible
We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
Youngs Literal Translation
'We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cruel Nation From The North
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, set in order like a man for war against you, O daughter of Zion. 24 We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in labor. 25 Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear are on every side.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion's daughter, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul faints because of murderers.
Jeremiah 49:24
Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands became feeble. Anguish took hold of him, and pangs like those of a woman in labor.
Isaiah 21:3
Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing.
Isaiah 28:19
From the time that it goes out it shall take you; for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be only a terror to understand the message.
Jeremiah 4:19-21
My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when he comes to punish you? For you have taught them to be rulers over you for a head. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 30:6
Ask now, and see whether a man is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Psalm 48:6
Fear took hold on them there, and pain, like a woman in labor.
Proverbs 1:27-28
when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.
Jeremiah 4:6-9
Set up the banner toward Zion; flee for safety and do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great ruin.
Jeremiah 22:23
O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?
Ezekiel 21:6-7
And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your loins; and groan with bitterness before their eyes.
Micah 4:9-10
Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like one giving birth.
Habakkuk 3:16
I heard and my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself that I might rest in the day of trouble; to come up against the people; he cuts him off.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.