TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in NET.
They told him,“This is what Hezekiah says:‘This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.
Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”
He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
For the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, has planned a day of panic, defeat, and confusion. In the Valley of Vision people shout and cry out to the hill.
As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O LORD.
LORD, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes.
Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.
The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!