Jeremiah 30:6

Maori Bible

6 Tena ra, ui atu, kia kite ai koutou, he whanau tamariki ranei ta te tane: He aha ahau i kite ai i nga tangata katoa ko o ratou ringa kei o ratou hope, koia ano kei te wahine e whanau ana, kua puta ke ano nga kanohi katoa, kua koma?

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.