Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.

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Cross-references (14)

Passages linked to Isaiah 21:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Isaiah 13:8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
  • Psalms 48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
  • Isaiah 26:17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.
  • Isaiah 16:11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
  • Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized. The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
  • Micah 4:9-10 Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
  • Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
  • Isaiah 15:5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
  • Isaiah 16:9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
  • Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
  • Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.
  • Daniel 5:5-6 In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
  • Habakkuk 3:16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain This the Prophet speaketh in the person of the…

This the Prophet speaketh in the person of the Babylonians.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain:…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My loins; which he mentions with respect to the…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore are my loins filled with pain,.... As a…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain My loins - Which he mentions with respect to…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 21:3-4. Therefore my loins, &c. — “We have…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Therefore - In this verse, and the following, the…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Pain. He bewails the crimes and the fall of…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Isaiah imagines himself among the exiles in Babylon and…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3, 4. Loins filled with pain — In these…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. are my loins filled with pain] Nah_2:10.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) Therefore are my loins filled with pain .…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Therefore are my loins filled with pain, etc. (comp.…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 my loins are filled with pain
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:3 I grow faint . . . I am…

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