43 “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
    and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
    pain as of a woman in labor.

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31 One (A)runner runs to meet another,
    and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
    that his city is taken on every side;

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24 (A)Damascus has become feeble, (B)she turned to flee,
    and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
    as (C)of a woman in labor.

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(A)Immediately (B)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (C)the hand as it wrote. (D)Then the king's color changed, (E)and his thoughts alarmed him; (F)his limbs gave way, and (G)his knees knocked together.

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22 Behold, (A)one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against (B)Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart (C)of a woman in her birth pains.”

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Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    (A)pangs have seized me,
    like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
    I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
    (B)the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.

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(A)Wail, for (B)the day of the Lord is near;
    as destruction from the Almighty[a] it will come!
Therefore all hands will be feeble,
    and every human heart (C)will melt.
They will be dismayed:
    (D)pangs and agony will seize them;
    (E)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
    their faces will be aflame.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike

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