Isaiæ 30:6

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Interrogate, et videte si generat masculus:
quare ergo vidi omnis viri manum
super lumbum suum, quasi parturientis,
et conversæ sunt universæ facies in auruginem?

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Onus jumentorum austri. In terra tribulationis et angustiæ leæna, et leo ex eis, vipera et regulus volans ; portantes super humeros jumentorum divitias suas, et super gibbum camelorum thesauros suos, ad populum qui eis prodesse non poterit.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Interrogate et videte, si generat masculus; quare ergo vidi omnis viri manum super lumbum suum quasi parturientis, et conversae sunt universae facies in auruginem?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a man: Heb. a male

every: Jeremiah 4:31, Jeremiah 6:24, Jeremiah 13:21, Jeremiah 22:23, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 50:43, Psalms 48:6, Isaiah 13:6-9, Isaiah 21:3, Daniel 5:6, Hosea 13:13, Micah 4:9, Micah 4:10, John 16:21, John 16:22, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

paleness: Isaiah 29:22, Joel 2:6, Nahum 2:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 69:23 - make their Isaiah 8:22 - look Isaiah 13:8 - pangs Isaiah 26:17 - General Jeremiah 48:41 - as the heart Jeremiah 49:22 - the heart of the Ezekiel 21:6 - with the Daniel 5:9 - changed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?.... Look into the histories of former times, inquire of those most versed in them, whether ever there was such a thing in the world as that a man should travail with child; ask one and, another you see in distress, whether that is their case or not, which looks so much like it; and since there never was such an instance, nor is it possible that there should:

wherefore do I see every man with his hands his loins, as a woman in travail; the usual posture of women in such a condition, trying hereby to abate their pain, and ease themselves. This metaphor is made use of, both to express the sharpness and shortness of this distress; as the pains of a woman in travail are very sharp, yet short, and, when over, quickly forgotten; and so it wilt be at this time; it will be a sharp trial of the church and people of God; but it will last but for a short time; and the joy and happy times that will follow will soon cause it to be forgotten:

and all faces are turned into paleness? at the departure of the blood, through fear and trembling. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it "the yellow jaundice"; their faces were of the colour of such persons that have that disease upon them; or, as others, the green sickness. Some render it, "the king's evil" q.

q לירקון "in speciem morbi regii", Junius Tremellius "in morbum regium", Piscator.