Isaiah 21:3 meaning and explanation
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
Isaiah 21:3, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the prophet himself, reacting to the vision of verse 2, where God commands Elam and Media to attack Babylon. What he hears and sees overwhelms him physically: anguish fills his body and pain grips him like a woman in labor, a common biblical image for sudden, inescapable distress.
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