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Isaiah 26:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Like as a woman with child (comp. Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3). Isaiah uses the metaphor to express any severe pain combined with anxiety. So have we been in thy sight; rather, so have we been at thy presence.

When thou wert visiting us in anger, and laying thy chastisements upon us.

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