Jeremías 30:6

6 Pregunten y veansi acaso los varones dan a luz.¿Por qué, pues, veo a todos los hombrescon las manos sobre las caderas,como mujeres con dolores de parto?¿Por qué han palidecidotodos los rostros?

Jeremías 30:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
&c.] Look into the histories of former times, inquire of those most versed in them, whether ever there was such a thing in the world as that a man should travail with child; ask one and, another you see in distress, whether that is their case or not, which looks so much like it; and since there never was such an instance, nor is it possible that there should: wherefore do I see every man with his hands his loins, as a woman in
travail;
the usual posture of women in such a condition, trying hereby to abate their pain, and ease themselves. This metaphor is made use of, both to express the sharpness and shortness of this distress; as the pains of a woman in travail are very sharp, yet short, and, when over, quickly forgotten; and so it wilt be at this time; it will be a sharp trial of the church and people of God; but it will last but for a short time; and the joy and happy times that will follow will soon cause it to be forgotten: and all faces are turned into paleness?
at the departure of the blood, through fear and trembling. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it "the yellow jaundice"; their faces were of the colour of such persons that have that disease upon them; or, as others, the green sickness. Some render it, "the king's evil" ^F17.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Nwqryl) "in speciem morbi regii", Junius & Tremellius; "in morbum regium", Piscator.

Jeremías 30:6 In-Context

4 Esto fue lo que el SEÑOR le dijo a Jeremías acerca de Israel y Judá:

5 «Así dice el SEÑOR:»“Hemos escuchado un grito de espanto;no hay paz, sino terror.

6 Pregunten y veansi acaso los varones dan a luz.¿Por qué, pues, veo a todos los hombrescon las manos sobre las caderas,como mujeres con dolores de parto?¿Por qué han palidecidotodos los rostros?

7 ¡Ay! Será un día terrible,un día que no tiene parangón.Será un tiempo de angustia para Jacob,pero será librado de ella.

8 »”En aquel día —afirma el SEÑORTodopoderoso—,quebraré el yugo que mi pueblo lleva sobre el cuello,romperé sus ataduras,y ya no serán esclavos de extranjeros.