⁸ They will be ^(A)terrified,
Pains and labor pangs will take hold of them;
They will ^(B)writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.

³ For this reason my ^(A)loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a ^(B)woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

⁶ Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his loins, ^(A)as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?