Jeremiah 4:31
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor,
What it says
Jeremiah hears daughter Zion crying out like a woman in labor, fainting as she stretches out her hands before murderers.
What it is doing
This verse closes the chapter in helpless suffering.
In context
19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! 20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, 21How long must I see the signal flag 22“For My people are fools; 23I looked at the earth, 24I looked at the mountains, 25I looked, and no man was left; 26I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. 27For this is what the LORD says: 28Therefore the earth will mourn 29Every city flees 30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, 31For I hear a cry like a woman in labor,