Holy Scripture
Isaiah 21:4
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 3, 4.) Therefore my loins are filled with pain: anguish has taken hold of me, like the anguish of a woman in labor: I am bowed down when I hear it, I am troubled when I see it. My heart is faint, darkness has overwhelmed me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me. The prophets are therefore obscured, be…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
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In context
2so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
3Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.
— Isaiah 21:4 —
5Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.
6For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.