But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

"We have heard its report; our hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary."