Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageBecause of this my whole body writhes with anguish; birth pangs grip me like a woman in labor. I am too bent to hear, too terrified to see.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GTherefore my loins are filled with writhing; birth-pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labour. I am doubled over from the hearing; I am undone from the seeing.
KJV
King James VersionTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleTherefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
Footnotes
The prophet's bodily response is visceral and unmediated — *chalchala* (writhing, anguish) in the *matnim* (loins, hips) echoes the Hebrew idiom for profound inner upheaval. The comparison to a labouring woman (*yoledet*) is a recurring biblical image for catastrophic judgement (cf. Isa. 13:8; Jer. 4:31; Mic. 4:9), but here it is Yesha'yahu himself — not the enemy nation — who writhes, signalling genuine prophetic pathos even over Babylon's fall. FOG renders the physicality as sensory shutdown: "doubled over," "undone"; FOG Message opts for paralysis — "too bent to hear, too terrified to see" — capturing the overwhelming of every faculty.