They will be (A)terrified,
Pains and anguish 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.

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Terror(A) will seize them,
    pain and anguish will grip(B) them;
    they will writhe like a woman in labor.(C)
They will look aghast at each other,
    their faces aflame.(D)

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And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

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

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Ask and see:
    Can a man bear children?
Then why do I see every strong man
    with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,(A)
    every face turned deathly pale?(B)

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Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

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41 Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the (A)hearts of the warriors of Moab on that day
Will be like the heart of a (B)woman in labor.

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41 Kerioth[a](A) will be captured
    and the strongholds taken.
In that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors(B)
    will be like the heart of a woman in labor.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:41 Or The cities

41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

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