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Jeremiah 13:21

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21What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you?q You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.

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  1. qProbable text What … over you; Hebrew unclear.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

What will you say when they set as head over you

those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?

Will not pangs take hold of you

like those of a woman in labor?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

What will you say when the Lord sets over you

those you cultivated as your special allies?

Will not pain grip you

like that of a woman in labor?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

What will you say when he appoints

close friends as leaders over you,

ones you yourself trained?

Won’t labor pains seize you,

as they do a woman in labor?

NLTNew Living Translation

What will you say when the Lord takes the allies you have cultivated

and appoints them as your rulers?

Pangs of anguish will grip you,

like those of a woman in labor!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

What will you say when he sets over you—

and you have taught them—allies as head over you?

Will not labor pains take hold of you,

like a woman giving birth?

KJV 1900King James Version

What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?