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Selected Verse: Isaiah 21:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 21:3 |
Strong Concordance |
Therefore are my loins [04975] filled [04390] with pain [02479]: pangs [06735] have taken hold [0270] upon me, as the pangs [06735] of a woman that travaileth [03205]: I was bowed down [05753] at the hearing [08085] of it; I was dismayed [0926] at the seeing [07200] of it. |
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King James |
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Isaiah imagines himself among the exiles in Babylon and cannot help feeling moved by the calamities which come on it. So for Moab (Isa 15:5; Isa 16:11).
pain--(Compare Isa 13:8; Eze 30:4, Eze 30:19; Nah 2:10).
at the hearing--The Hebrew may mean, "I was so bowed down that I could not hear; I was so dismayed that I could not see" (Gen 16:2; Psa 69:23) [MAURER]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Therefore - In this verse, and the following, the prophet represents himself as "in" Babylon, and as a witness of the calamities which would come upon the city. He describes the sympathy which he feels in her sorrows, and represents himself as deeply affected by her calamities. A similar description occurred in the pain which the prophet represents himself as enduring on account of the calamities of Moab (see Isa 15:5, note; Isa 16:11, note).
My loins - (see the note at Isa 16:11).
With pain - The word used here (חלחלה chalchâlâh) denotes properly the pains of parturition, and the whole figure is taken from that. The sense is, that the prophet was filled with the most acute sorrow and anguish, in view of the calamities which were coming on Babylon. That is, the sufferings of Babylon would be indescribably great and dreadful (see Nah 2:11; Eze 30:4, Eze 30:9).
I was bowed down - Under the grief and sorrow produced by these calamities.
At the hearing it - The Hebrew may have this sense, and mean that these things were made to pass before the eye of the prophet, and that the sight oppressed him, and bowed him down. But more probably the Hebrew letter מ (m) in the word משׁמע mishemoa' is to be taken "privatively," and means, 'I was so bowed down or oppressed that I could not see; I was so dismayed that I could not hear;' that is, all his senses were taken away by the greatness of the calamity, and by his sympathetic sufferings. A similar construction occurs in Psa 69:23 : 'Let their eyes be darkened that they see not' (מראות mēre'ôth) that is, "from" seeing. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Here again, as in the case of the prophecy concerning Moab, what the prophet has given to him to see does not pass without exciting his feelings of humanity, but works upon him like a horrible dream. "Therefore are my loins full of cramp: pangs have taken hold of me, as the pangs of a travailing woman: I twist myself, so that I do not hear; I am brought down with fear, so that I do not see. My heart beats wildly; horror hath troubled me: the darkness of night that I love, he hath turned for me into quaking." The prophet does not describe in detail what he saw; but the violent agitation produced by the impression leads us to conclude how horrible it must have been. Chalchâlâh is the contortion produced by cramp, as in Nah 2:11; tzirim is the word properly applied to the pains of childbirth; na‛avâh means to bend, or bow one's self, and is also used to denote a convulsive utterance of pain; tâ‛âh, which is used in a different sense from Psa 95:10 (compare, however, Psa 38:11), denotes a feverish and irregular beating of the pulse. The darkness of evening and night, which the prophet loved so much (chēshek, a desire arising from inclination, Kg1 9:1, Kg1 9:19), and always longed for, either that he might give himself up to contemplation, or that he might rest from outward and inward labour, had bee changed into quaking by the horrible vision. It is quite impossible to imagine, as Umbreit suggests, that nesheph chishki (the darkness of my pleasure) refers to the nocturnal feast during which Babylon was stormed (Herod. i. 191, and Xenophon, Cyrop. vii. 23). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| My loins - Which he mentions with respect to the following similitude of child - bearing. Pangs - Sharp and grievous pains. |
23 Let their eyes [05869] be darkened [02821], that they see [07200] not; and make their loins [04975] continually [08548] to shake [04571].
2 And Sarai [08297] said [0559] unto Abram [087], Behold now, the LORD [03068] hath restrained me [06113] from bearing [03205]: I pray thee, go in [0935] unto my maid [08198]; it may [0194] be that I may obtain children [01129] by her. And Abram [087] hearkened [08085] to the voice [06963] of Sarai [08297].
10 She is empty [0950], and void [04003], and waste [01110]: and the heart [03820] melteth [04549], and the knees [01290] smite together [06375], and much pain [02479] is in all loins [04975], and the faces [06440] of them all gather [06908] blackness [06289].
19 Thus will I execute [06213] judgments [08201] in Egypt [04714]: and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].
4 And the sword [02719] shall come [0935] upon Egypt [04714], and great pain [02479] shall be in Ethiopia [03568], when the slain [02491] shall fall [05307] in Egypt [04714], and they shall take away [03947] her multitude [01995], and her foundations [03247] shall be broken down [02040].
8 And they shall be afraid [0926]: pangs [06735] and sorrows [02256] shall take hold [0270] of them; they shall be in pain [02342] as a woman that travaileth [03205]: they shall be amazed [08539] one [0376] at another [07453]; their faces [06440] shall be as flames [03851].
11 Wherefore my bowels [04578] shall sound [01993] like an harp [03658] for Moab [04124], and mine inward parts [07130] for Kirharesh [07025].
5 My heart [03820] shall cry out [02199] for Moab [04124]; his fugitives [01280] shall flee unto Zoar [06820], an heifer [05697] of three years old [07992]: for by the mounting up [04608] of Luhith [03872] with weeping [01065] shall they go it up [05927]; for in the way [01870] of Horonaim [02773] they shall raise up [05782] a cry [02201] of destruction [07667].
23 Let their eyes [05869] be darkened [02821], that they see [07200] not; and make their loins [04975] continually [08548] to shake [04571].
9 In that day [03117] shall messengers [04397] go forth [03318] from me [06440] in ships [06716] to make the careless [0983] Ethiopians [03568] afraid [02729], and great pain [02479] shall come upon them, as in the day [03117] of Egypt [04714]: for, lo, it cometh [0935].
4 And the sword [02719] shall come [0935] upon Egypt [04714], and great pain [02479] shall be in Ethiopia [03568], when the slain [02491] shall fall [05307] in Egypt [04714], and they shall take away [03947] her multitude [01995], and her foundations [03247] shall be broken down [02040].
11 Where is the dwelling [04583] of the lions [0738], and the feedingplace [04829] of the young lions [03715], where the lion [0738], even the old lion [03833], walked [01980], and the lion's [0738] whelp [01482], and none made them afraid [02729]?
11 Wherefore my bowels [04578] shall sound [01993] like an harp [03658] for Moab [04124], and mine inward parts [07130] for Kirharesh [07025].
11 Wherefore my bowels [04578] shall sound [01993] like an harp [03658] for Moab [04124], and mine inward parts [07130] for Kirharesh [07025].
5 My heart [03820] shall cry out [02199] for Moab [04124]; his fugitives [01280] shall flee unto Zoar [06820], an heifer [05697] of three years old [07992]: for by the mounting up [04608] of Luhith [03872] with weeping [01065] shall they go it up [05927]; for in the way [01870] of Horonaim [02773] they shall raise up [05782] a cry [02201] of destruction [07667].
19 And all the cities [05892] of store [04543] that Solomon [08010] had, and cities [05892] for his chariots [07393], and cities [05892] for his horsemen [06571], and that [02837] which Solomon [08010] desired [02836] to build [01129] in Jerusalem [03389], and in Lebanon [03844], and in all the land [0776] of his dominion [04475].
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon [08010] had finished [03615] the building [01129] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the king's [04428] house [01004], and all Solomon's [08010] desire [02837] which he was pleased [02654] to do [06213],
11 My lovers [0157] and my friends [07453] stand [05975] aloof from [05048] my sore [05061]; and my kinsmen [07138] stand [05975] afar off [07350].
10 Forty [0705] years [08141] long was I grieved [06962] with this generation [01755], and said [0559], It is a people [05971] that do err [08582] in their heart [03824], and they have not known [03045] my ways [01870]:
11 Where is the dwelling [04583] of the lions [0738], and the feedingplace [04829] of the young lions [03715], where the lion [0738], even the old lion [03833], walked [01980], and the lion's [0738] whelp [01482], and none made them afraid [02729]?