Jer 4:31 | HCSB | STEP | I hear a cry like a woman in labor , a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child . The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath , stretching out her hands : Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers !

a Ps 48:6; Isa 13:8; 21:3; 42:14; Jr 6:24; 13:21; 22:23; 30:6; 50:43; Mc 4:9-10; 1Th 5:3

Jeremiah 4:31

31 I hear a cry like a woman in labor, ^a
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands: ^b
Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers!