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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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.

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21 (A)Whenever a woman is in labor she has [a]pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a [b]child has been born into the world.

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Footnotes

  1. John 16:21 Lit grief
  2. John 16:21 Lit human being

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