Jer 4:31, 14:17 | ESV | STEP | For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor , anguish as of one giving birth to her first child , the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath , stretching out her hands , Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers .

Jeremiah 4:31

31 For I heard ^aa cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
^bstretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 14:17

17 “You shall say to them this word:
^c‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin ^ddaughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
^ewith a very grievous blow.