⁶ Trembling seized them there,
agony like that of a woman in labor,^(A)

⁸ They will be horrified;
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.^(A)
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.

³ 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.

²¹ What will you say when he appoints
close friends as leaders over you,
ones you yourself trained?
Won’t labor pains seize you,^(A)
as they do a woman in labor?

²³ You residents of Lebanon,
nestled among the cedars,
how you will groan^[a] when pains come on you,
agony like a woman in labor.^(A)