We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

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

You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;