Isaiah 37:3

“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 19:3; 2Ch 15:4; Ps 50:15; Ps 91:15; Ps 95:8; Ps 116:3,4; Isa 25:8; Isa 26:17,18; Isa 33:2; Isa 66:9; Jer 30:7; Ho 5:15; Ho 6:1; Ho 13:13; Re 3:19

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

² tn Or “rebuke” (KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “correction.”

³ tn Or “contempt”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “disgrace.”

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