Isa 13:8, Eze 30:4, 19, Nah 2:10 | JFB | STEP | 8. pangs —The Hebrew means also a "messenger." HORSLEY , therefore, with the Septuagint translates, "The heralds (who bring word of the unexpected invasion) are terrified. " MAURER agrees with English Version, literally, "they shall take hold of pangs and sorrows." woman . . . travaileth — ( ). amazed —the stupid, bewildered gaze of consternation. faces . . . flames —"their visages have the livid hue of flame" [HORSLEY ]; with anguish and indignation.

Isaiah 13:8

8. pangs—The Hebrew means also a "messenger." HORSLEY, therefore, with the Septuagint translates, "The heralds (who bring word of the unexpected invasion) are terrified." MAURER agrees with English Version, literally, "they shall take hold of pangs and sorrows."

woman . . . travaileth— (1Th 5:3).

amazed—the stupid, bewildered gaze of consternation.

faces . . . flames—"their visages have the livid hue of flame" [HORSLEY]; with anguish and indignation.

Ezekiel 30:4

4. pain—literally, "pangs with trembling as of a woman in childbirth."

Ezekiel 30:19

Nahum 2:10

10. Literally, "emptiness, and emptiedness, and devastation." The accumulation of substantives without a verb (as in Na 3:2), the two first of the three being derivatives of the same root, and like in sound, and the number of syllables in them increasing in a kind of climax, intensify the gloomy effectiveness of the expression. Hebrew, Bukah, Mebukah, Mebullakah (compare Isa 24:1, 3, 4; Zep 1:15).

faces of all gather blackness—(See on Joe 2:6). CALVIN translates, "withdraw (literally, 'gather up') their glow," or flush, that is, grow pale. This is probably the better rendering. So MAURER.