³ They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

²⁹ Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

¹³ The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; For when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

¹ "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For he has torn us to pieces, And he will heal us; He has injured us, And he will bind up our wounds.

⁵ For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

⁶ Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

⁷ Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

⁹ Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]? says your God.

¹⁷ Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

³ Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.

⁸ Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

¹¹ When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

¹⁵ while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

¹⁶ For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?