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Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully:[a]
Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby?
Why then do I see all these strong men
grabbing their stomachs in pain like[b] a woman giving birth?
And why do their faces
turn so deathly pale?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:6 tn Heb “Ask and see/consider.”
  2. Jeremiah 30:6 tn Heb “with their hands on their loins.” The word rendered “loins” refers to the area between the ribs and the thighs.

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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