Yesaya 26:17
Konteks26:17 As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver
and strains and cries out because of her labor pains,
so were we because of you, O Lord.
Yesaya 38:3
Konteks38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 1 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 2 and how I have carried out your will.” 3 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4
[38:3] 1 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
[38:3] 2 tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”
[38:3] 3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
[38:3] 4 tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”