Isaiah 13:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְֽנִבְהָ֓לוּ ׀ צִירִ֤ים וַֽחֲבָלִים֙ יֹֽאחֵז֔וּן כַּיּוֹלֵדָ֖ה יְחִיל֑וּן אִ֤ישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ יִתְמָ֔הוּ פְּנֵ֥י לְהָבִ֖ים פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Wə-niḇhālû ṣîrîm wa-ḥăḇālîm yōʾḥēzûn like-the-yôlēḏāh yəḥîlûn ʾîš to-rēʿēhû yiṯmāhû pənê ləhāḇîm pənêhem

Grammar Details

*wəniḇhālû*: conjunction + verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they will be dismayed/terrified
*ṣîrîm*: noun, masculine, plural - pangs/labor pains
*waḥăḇālîm*: conjunction + noun, masculine, plural - and pains/birth pangs
*yōʾḥēzûn*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + paragogic nun - they will seize/grasp
*kayyôlēḏāh*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular + definite article - like the woman giving birth
*yəḥîlûn*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + paragogic nun - they will writhe/be in anguish
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine, singular - man/each one
*ʾel-rēʿēhû*: preposition + noun, masculine, singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - to his neighbor/companion
*yiṯmāhû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will be astonished/amazed
*pənê*: noun, masculine, plural, construct - faces of
*ləhāḇîm*: noun, masculine, plural - flames
*pənêhem*: noun, masculine, plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their faces

Word Meanings

*niḇhālû*: will be dismayed/terrified/alarmed/panic
*ṣîrîm*: pangs/labor pains/distress
*ḥăḇālîm*: pains/birth pangs/sorrows
*yōʾḥēzûn*: will seize/grasp/take hold of
*yəḥîlûn*: will writhe/be in anguish/twist in pain
*yiṯmāhû*: will be astonished/amazed/look in horror
*pənê ləhāḇîm pənêhem*: their faces are faces of flames/their faces are flushed

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 26:17 : 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.
Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Isa 21:3-4 : 3 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. 4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Ps 48:5-6 : 5 They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away. 6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.
John 16:21 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.
1 Thess 5:3 : 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer 50:43 : 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Dan 5:5-6 : 5 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Joel 2:6 : 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

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