like as when a wife bringeth forth a man child, before she suffer the pain of the birth and anguish of the travail.

Then shall young men's bows be knapped asunder. The Medes shall have no pity upon women with child, and their faces shall not spare the children.

Be ashamed, thou Sidon, for the sea - even the strength of the sea - hath spoken, saying: "I have not traveled, nor brought forth children, nor nourished up young men, or brought up virgins."

Children are weary and faint, and the strongest men fall: