Isa 21:3-9, 47:11-13, Jer 50:43, Dan 5:2-5, 30 | ESV | STEP | Therefore my loins are filled with anguish ; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor ; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear ; I am dismayed so that I cannot see .

n[See ver. 1 above]

o ver. 23; See ch. 1:2

q[See ver. 2 above]

r ver. 23; [Judg. 16:24]

s ver. 23; [Rev. 9:20]; See Ps. 115:4-7

t[ch. 4:31]

u[Ezek. 8:3]

v ver. 24

w Jer. 50:24; 51:31, 39, 57

x[See ver. 22 above]

y ch. 9:1

Isaiah 21:3-9

3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
^apangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
^bthe twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 ^cThey prepare the table,
they spread the rugs, ^{▼▼Or they set the watchman}
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
^eoil the shield!
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out: ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion}
^g“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
^hAnd he answered,
ⁱ“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
^jand all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”

Isaiah 47:11-13

11 But evil shall come upon you,
which you will not know how to charm away;
disaster shall fall upon you,
for which you will not be able to atone;
^kand ruin shall come upon you suddenly,
of which you know nothing.
12 ^lStand fast in your enchantments
and your many sorceries,
with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
perhaps you may inspire terror.
13 You are wearied with your many counsels;
let them stand forth and save you,
^mthose who divide the heavens,
who gaze at the stars,
who at the new moons make known
what shall come upon you.

Jeremiah 50:43

43 “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.

Daniel 5:2-5

2 ⁿBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ^othe vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father ^{▼▼Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18} had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought in ^qthe golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine and ^rpraised the ^sgods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

5 ^tImmediately ^uthe fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw ^vthe hand as it wrote.

Daniel 5:30

30 ^wThat very night ^xBelshazzar the ^yChaldean king was killed.