John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 4:31

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, etc.] So the distress of the Jews, at the time of their destruction, is compared to the sorrows of a woman in travail; and a word, that signifies that is used to express it, (<402408>Matthew 24:8): and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child; whose time is more difficult, her pains sharper, her anguish greater, and, having less experience, the more impatient: the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself; her unhappy condition, and miserable circumstances: that spreadeth her hands; as persons in distress do, and particularly women in travail: saying, woe is me now, for my soul is wearied because of murderers: these abounded: under the second temple, and was the reason, the Jews say:f108, of the sanhedrim removing from their usual place in the temple; and why they ceased from the beheading of the red heiferf109.

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