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.

Is not that the glorious city, which hath been of long antiquity? Whose natives dwelling far off, commend her so greatly?

I first decreed to Zion, 'Look, here's what will happen!' I sent a herald to Jerusalem.