Verse 3

and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah -- A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising `is' this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 18:29 : 29 thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you out of his hand;
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity `is' every man. Selah.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, 4 Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!
  • Isa 26:17-18 : 17 When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O Jehovah. 18 We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.
  • Isa 66:9 : 9 `Do I bring to the birth, And not cause to bring forth?' saith Jehovah, `Am not I He who is causing to beget? I have also restrained,' said thy God.
  • Jer 30:5-7 : 5 Surely thus said Jehovah: A voice of trembling we have heard, Fear -- and there is no peace. 6 Ask, I pray you, and see, is a male bringing forth? Wherefore have I seen every man, His hands on his loins, as a travailing woman, And all faces have been turned to paleness? 7 Wo! for great `is' that day, without any like it, Yea, a time of adversity it `is' to Jacob, Yet out of it he is saved.
  • Hos 5:15-6:1 : 15 I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!' 1 `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
  • Hos 13:13 : 13 Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He `is' a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.
  • Heb 3:15-16 : 15 in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,' 16 for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;