Therefore I am[a] filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.(A)
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:3 Lit Therefore my loins are

At this my body is racked with pain,(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered(C) by what I see.

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Nations writhe in horror before them;(A)
all faces turn pale.

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At the sight of them, nations are in anguish;(A)
    every face turns pale.(B)

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