2 Kings 19:3

“This is what Hezekiah says: ¹  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ²  and humiliation, ³  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ⁴ 

2Ki 18:29; Ps 39:11; Ps 95:8; Ps 123:3,4; Isa 26:17,18; Isa 66:9; Jer 30:5-7; Ho 5:15; Ho 6:1; Ho 13:13; Heb 3:15,16

¹ tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him.”

² tn Or “rebuke,” “correction.”

³ tn Or “contempt.”

⁴ tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”