Jeremiah 6:24
“(Verse 24.) We have heard his fame: our hands are weak; distress has seized us, like the pain of childbirth. The people responded to the Prophet, or rather, through the Prophet, the Lord has threatened the Babylonians: before they come, they will be overcome with fear, unable to lift their hands, and distress will gri…”
Source: Septuagint
24We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
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22Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.
23They shall lay hold on bow and spear; the people is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Zion.
— Jeremiah 6:24 —
25Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
26O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.