Isaiah 13:8 KJV
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Words Then and Now
- travaileth labor, especially in childbirth; toil Still heard today: the travails of starting a business, its toil Webster’s 1828 · Travail
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Matthew Henry
- The conquest of BabylonWe have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are...
Thompson Chains
- Guilty FearSee the chain from Genesis 3:8 · 13 links
- TravailLink 3 of 5 · next Isaiah 42:14
Parallel Passages
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Isaiah 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
- Nahum 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Isaiah 21:3–4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. …
- Psalms 48:5–6 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. …
- Jeremiah 4:31 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.
- Jeremiah 30:6 Ask 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?
- Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Daniel 5:5–6 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. …
- Joel 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
- John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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Topics
- Babylon Prophecies concerning
- Birth Pangs in giving
- Isaiah The burden of Babylon
- Wicked (people) Punishment of
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible808–698 BC · Isaiah, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And they shall be afraid וְנִבְהָלוּ wĕnibhālû בָּהַל Verb · niphal sequential perfect, third person common plural · with and
- pangs צִירִים ṣîrîm צִיר Noun · masculine plural
- and sorrows וַחֲבָלִים waḥăbālîm חֶבֶל Noun · masculine plural · with and
- shall take hold יֹאחֵזוּן yōʾḥēzûn אָחַז Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- of them; they shall be in pain יְחִילוּן yĕḥîlûn חוּל Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- as a woman that travaileth כַּיּוֹלֵדָה kayyôlēdâ יָלַד Verb · qal active participle, feminine singular · with preposition with the
- they shall be amazed יִתְמָהוּ yitmāhû תָּמַהּ Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- one אִישׁ ʾîš אִישׁ Noun · masculine singular
- at another אֶל ʾel Preposition רֵעֵהוּ rēʿēhû רֵעַ Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: third person masculine singular
- their faces פְּנֵי pĕnê פָּנִים Noun · masculine or feminine plural construct
- flames לְהָבִים lĕhābîm לַהַב Noun · masculine plural פְּנֵיהֶם pĕnêhem Noun · masculine or feminine plural construct · with suffix: third person masculine plural
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