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Isaiah 21:3

World English Bible

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

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Isaiah 21:3 in other translations

Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 21:3 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 21:3 in context

  1. 1The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
    As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
  2. 2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
  3. 3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
  4. 4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
  5. 5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!