2 Kings 19:3

“The “trouble” consisted in rebuke” (rather, “chastisement,”) for sins at the hand of God, and “blasphemy” (rather, “reproach,”) at the hands of man. The children ... - i. e., “we are in a fearful extremity - at the last gasp - and lack the strength that might carry us through the danger.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“The children - We are like a poor travailing woman in great extremity, having no strength left to help herself, and to bring forth her infant into the world. We have attempted to deliver ourselves from the Assyrian yoke; and had carried on that work to some maturity, and as we thought, brought it to the birth; but now we have no might to finish. We have begun an happy reformation, and are hindered by this insolent Assyrian, from bringing it to perfection. 4 Kings (2 Kings) 19:4”

“This day: Kg2 18:29; Psa 39:11, Psa 123:3, Psa 123:4; Jer 30:5-7; Hos 5:15, Hos 6:1 blasphemy: or, provocation, Psa 95:8; Heb 3:15, Heb 3:16 for the children: Isa 26:17, Isa 26:18, Isa 66:9; Hos 13:13 4 Kings (2 Kings) 19:4”

“"A day of distress, and of chastisement, and of rejection is this day." תּוכחה: the divine chastisement. נאצה: contemptuous treatment, or rejection of the people on the part of God (compare נאץ, Deu 32:19; Jer 14:21; Lam 2:6). "For children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth." A figure denoting extreme danger, the most desperate circumstances. If the woman in travail has not strength to bring forth the child which has come to the mouth of the womb, both the life of the child and that of the mother are exposed to the greatest danger; and this was the condition of the people here (see the similar figure in Hos 13:13). For לדה instead of לדת, see Ges. 69, 2 Anm. 4…”