Jeremiah 4:30-31

New Living Translation

³⁰What are you doing,
    you who have been plundered?
Why do you dress up in beautiful clothing
    and put on gold jewelry?
Why do you brighten your eyes with mascara?
    Your primping will do you no good!
The allies who were your lovers
    despise you and seek to kill you.

³¹I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,
    the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.
It is beautiful Jerusalem^[a]
    gasping for breath and crying out,
    “Help! I’m being murdered!”

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Footnotes

4:31 Hebrew the daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 4:30-31

International Standard Version

³⁰You are ruined! What are you doing
    dressing in scarlet,
putting on golden ornaments,
    and highlighting your eyes with makeup?
You are making yourself beautiful in vain.
    Your lovers reject you—
        they’re out to kill you.
³¹I heard a cry like that of a woman in labor,
    anguish like one giving birth to her firstborn,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for air,
    stretching out her hand:
    “Woe is me! I’m about to faint in front of killers!”

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Jeremiah 4:30-31

New International Version

³⁰What are you doing,^(A) you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels^(B) of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?^(C)
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers^(D) despise you;
    they want to kill you.^(E)

³¹I hear a cry as of a woman in labor,^(F)
    a groan as of one bearing her first child—
the cry of Daughter Zion^(G) gasping for breath,^(H)
    stretching out her hands^(I) and saying,
“Alas! I am fainting;
    my life is given over to murderers.”^(J)