Jeremiah 6:24
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6:24The people cry out,63 “We have heard reports about them!
We have become helpless with fear!64
Anguish grips us,
agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!
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- 63 These words are not in the text, but, from the context, someone other than God is speaking and is speaking for and to the people (either Jeremiah or the people themselves). These words are supplied in the translation for clarity.
- 64 Or “We have lost our strength to do battle”; Heb “Our hands hang limp [or helpless at our sides].” According to 951 רָפָה Qal.2, this idiom is used figuratively for losing heart or energy. The best example of its figurative use of loss of strength or the feeling of helplessness is in Ezek 21:12 where it appears in the context of the heart (courage) melting, the spirit sinking, and the knees becoming like water. For other examples compare 2 Sam 4:1; Zeph 3:16. In Neh 6:9 it is used literally of the builders “dropping their hands from the work” out of fear. The words “with fear” are supplied in the translation because they are implicit in the context.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
We have heard the report of it;
our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
pain as of a woman in labor.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
We have heard reports about them,
and our hands hang limp.
Anguish has gripped us,
pain like that of a woman in labor.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
We have heard about it,
and our hands have become weak.
Distress has seized us—
pain, like a woman in labor.
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NLTNew Living Translation
We have heard reports about the enemy,
and we wring our hands in fright.
Pangs of anguish have gripped us,
like those of a woman in labor.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
We have heard news of it,
our hands grow slack,
anxiety has grasped us,
pain as a woman who gives birth.
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KJV 1900King James Version
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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