Jer 4:31, Eze 7:16-18, Mic 1:8-9 | 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.”

Ezekiel 7:16-18

16 ^cAnd if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^ddoves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 ^eAll hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 ^fThey put on sackcloth, and ^ghorror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^hbaldness on all their heads.

Micah 1:8-9

8 ⁱFor this I will lament and wail;
I will go ^jstripped and naked;
I will make lamentation ^klike the jackals,
and mourning ^llike the ostriches.
9 ^mFor her wound is incurable,
and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
to Jerusalem.