17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,(A)
so we were before You, Lord.

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31 I hear a cry like a woman in labor,(A)
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands:(B)
Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers!

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21 When a woman is in labor she has pain(A) because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child,(B) she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

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