• Jeremiah 4:31
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 31 For I have heard the sound like that of a sick woman,

      The distress like that of a woman giving birth to her first child,

      The voice of the daughter of Zion who keeps gasping for breath.

      She says as she spreads out her palms:+

      “Woe to me, for I am* exhausted because of the killers!”

  • Jeremiah 4:31
    The Bible in Living English

    • 31 For I hear a voice like a woman in childbirth, distress as if of one having a first child, the voice of the daughter of Sion panting, reaching out her hands, “O me! my being is all unstrung for killers.”

  • Jeremiah 4:31
    American Standard Version

    • 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

  • Jeremiah 4:31
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 31 For a voice as of a woman in pangs have I heard, Anguish as of her that is bearing her firstborn. The voice of the daughter of Zion! She gaspeth for breath, She spreadeth forth her palms,—Surely woe to me! For my soul fainteth before murderers.

  • Jeremiah 4:31
    King James Version

    • 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.