Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
'We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.
New American Standard Bible
Our hands are limp.
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
King James Version
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Holman Bible
and we are discouraged.
Distress has seized us—
pain like a woman in
International Standard Version
We have heard the news about it, and our hands are limp. Distress has seized us like a woman in labor.
A Conservative Version
We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
American Standard Version
We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Amplified
We have heard the report of it;
Our hands become limp and helpless.
Anguish has gripped us,
Pain like that of a woman in childbirth.
Bible in Basic English
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Darby Translation
We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.
Julia Smith Translation
We heard its report: our hands were relaxed; straits held us, pain as of her bringing forth
King James 2000
We have heard the report of it: our hands grow feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a [woman who] gives birth.
Modern King James verseion
We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in labor.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then shall this cry be heard, "Our arms are feeble! Heaviness and sorrow is come upon us, as upon a woman travailing with child!
NET Bible
The people cry out, "We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!
New Heart English Bible
"We have heard its report; our hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.
The Emphasized Bible
We have heard the report thereof, Relaxed are our hands, - Anguish, hath taken hold on us, Pangs, as on her that is giving birth.
Webster
We have heard the fame of it: our hands become feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
World English Bible
We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
Themes
Interlinear
Shama`
Yad
Raphah
Tsarah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 6:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cruel Nation From The North
23 Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it is, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion. 24 'We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman. 25 Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear is round about.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:31
For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, 'Woe to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'
Jeremiah 49:24
Feeble hath been Damascus, She turned to flee, and fear strengthened her, Distress and pangs have seized her, as a travailing woman.
Jeremiah 50:43
Heard hath the king of Babylon their report, And feeble have been his hands, Distress hath seized him; pain as a travailing woman.
Isaiah 21:3
Therefore filled have been my loins with great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.
Isaiah 28:19
From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.
Jeremiah 4:19-21
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!
Jeremiah 13:21
What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou -- thou hast taught them to be over thee -- leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?
Jeremiah 30:6
Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness?
Psalm 48:6
Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.
Proverbs 1:27-28
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
Jeremiah 4:6-9
Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
Jeremiah 22:23
O dweller in Lebanon, making a nest among cedars, How gracious hast thou been when pangs come to thee, Pain -- as of a travailing woman.
Ezekiel 21:6-7
And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,
Micah 4:9-10
Now, why dost thou shout aloud? A king -- is there none in thee? Hath thy counsellor perished, That taken hold of thee hath pain as a travailing woman?
Habakkuk 3:16
I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;