Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

The pains of childbirth come upon him;
He is not a wise son,
For it is not the time that he should delay at the opening of the womb.

“Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;
The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

For this reason my loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

‘Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?

Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.

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Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

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Fear

“Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;
The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.

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As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her labor pains,
Thus were we before You, O Lord.
The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
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