Jeremiah 4:31 meaning and explanation
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
Jeremiah 4:31, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah is the speaker, voicing what he hears as the Babylonians close in on Jerusalem. The Daughter of Zion, a poetic name for the city and its people, cries out like a woman in labor, gasping and stretching out her hands.
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