13. sorrows of a travailing woman —calamities sudden and agonizing ( :- ). unwise —in not foreseeing the impending judgment, and averting it by penitence ( :- ). he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children —When Israel might deliver himself from calamity by the pangs of penitence, he brings ruin on himself by so long deferring a new birth unto repentance, like a child whose mother has not strength to bring it forth, and which therefore remains so long in the passage from the womb as to run the risk of death ( 2 Kings 19:3 ; Isaiah 37:3 ; Isaiah 66:9 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"
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