Jeremiah 4:31
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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
In other translations
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
Hebrew words
כִּיkiforH3588קוֹלkola soundH6963כְּחוֹלָהkecholahlike a sick [woman]H2470שָׁמַעְתִּיshama'tiI have heardH8085צָרָהtzarahdistressH6869כְּמַבְכִּירָהkemavkirahlike a [woman] bearing a first childH1069קוֹלkol[the] sound ofH6963בַּת־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323צִיּוֹןtziyonZionH6726תִּתְיַפֵּחַtityapeachshe is gasping for breathH3306תְּפָרֵשׂtefaresshe is spreading outH6566כַּפֶּיהָkapeihahands herH3709אוֹי־'o-woe!H188נָאna'pleaseH4994לִיlito <the> meכִּי־ki-forH3588עָיְפָה'ayefahit is wearyH5888נַפְשִׁיnafshiself myH5315לְהֹרְגִים׃ פlehoregimto murderersH2026
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Related verses
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- Lamentations 1:17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
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- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
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- Jeremiah 30:6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
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