OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 4:31

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31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

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Verse 31. Child. Hebrew and Septuagint “a first-born,” when the pains are most acute. Calmet.

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