Jeremiah 30:6

30:6 Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: ¹ 

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 ²  a woman giving birth?

And why do their faces

turn so deathly pale?

Jeremiah 49:32

49:32 Their camels will be taken as plunder.

Their vast herds will be taken as spoil.

I will scatter to the four winds

those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. ³ 

I will bring disaster against them

from every direction,” says the Lord. ⁴ 

[30:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Ask and see/consider.”

[30:6]  ² tn Heb “with their hands on their loins.” The word rendered “loins” refers to the area between the ribs and the thighs.

[49:32]  ³ tn See the translator’s note at Jer 9:26 and compare the usage in 9:26 and 25:23.

[49:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”