Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
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Gill's Exposition
Before she travailed, she brought forth,.... That is, Zion, as appears from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest of Christ would be swallowed up and lost in the destruction…
Barnes' Notes
Before she travailed, she brought forth - That is, Zion. The idea here is, that there would be a great and sudden increase of her numbers. Zion is here represented, as it often is, as a female (see…
The prophet, having denounced God's judgments against a hypocritical nation, that made a jest of God's word and would not answer him when he called to them, here turns his speech to those that…
The sudden repopulation of the city by her children. The figure is taken from ch. Isa 49:17-21; Isa 54:1; the fact set forth being the instantaneous return of the exiled Israelites, by which, without…