Isa 13:8, Lam 5:10 | JFB | e4.org | 8. pangs —The Hebrew means also a "messenger." HORSLEY , therefore, with the Septuagint translates, "The heralds (who bring word of the unexpected invasion) are terrified. " MAURER agrees with English Version, literally, "they shall take hold of pangs and sorrows." woman . . . travaileth — ( ). amazed —the stupid, bewildered gaze of consternation. faces . . . flames —"their visages have the livid hue of flame" [HORSLEY ]; with anguish and indignation.

‏ Isaiah 13:8

8. pangs—The Hebrew means also a "messenger." HORSLEY, therefore, with the Septuagint translates, "The heralds (who bring word of the unexpected invasion) are terrified." MAURER agrees with English Version, literally, "they shall take hold of pangs and sorrows."

woman . . . travaileth— (1Th 5:3).

amazed—the stupid, bewildered gaze of consternation.

faces . . . flames—"their visages have the livid hue of flame" [HORSLEY]; with anguish and indignation.

‏ Lamentations 5:10

10. As an oven is scorched with too much fire, so our skin with the hot blast of famine (Margin, rightly, "storms," like the hot simoom). Hunger dries up the pores so that the skin becomes like as if it were scorched by the sun (Job 30:30; Ps 119:83).