2 Kings 19:3

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.

And they said {H559} unto him, Thus saith {H559} Hezekiah {H2396}, This day {H3117} is a day {H3117} of trouble {H6869}, and of rebuke {H8433}, and blasphemy {H5007}: for the children {H1121} are come {H935} to the birth {H4866}, and there is not strength {H3581} to bring forth {H3205}.

They said to him, "This is what Hizkiyahu says: 'Today is a day of trouble, rebuke and disgrace. Children are ready to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth.

to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 30:5 (4 votes)

    For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

  • Jeremiah 30:7 (4 votes)

    Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

  • Hebrews 3:15 (3 votes)

    While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

  • Hebrews 3:16 (3 votes)

    For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

  • Hosea 13:13 (3 votes)

    The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he [is] an unwise son; for he should not stay long in [the place of] the breaking forth of children.

  • Isaiah 26:17 (3 votes)

    Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

  • Isaiah 26:18 (3 votes)

    We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.