H2256B–חֵ֫בֶל–che.vel

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [ergänzt: to them] in his anger?

חֲ֝בָלִ֗ים cha.va.Lim “pain<s>”

They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;

חֶבְלֵיהֶ֥ם (חֶבְלֵי) chev.lei. “labor-pains”

and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.

וַֽחֲבָלִים֙ (חֲבָלִים֙) cha.va.Lim “pains”

As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, [ergänzt: and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

בַּחֲבָלֶ֑יהָ (חֲבָלֶ֑י) cha.va.Lei. “labor-pains”

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

חֵ֛בֶל Che.vel “labor-pain[s]”

What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee, since thou thyself hast trained them to be princes in chief over thee? Shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

חֲבָלִים֙ cha.va.Lim “labor-pains”

Thou inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how pitiful shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, pain as of a woman in travail!

חֲבָלִ֔ים cha.va.Lim “labor-pains”

Damascus is grown feeble: she turneth herself to flee, and terror hath seized on her; trouble and sorrows have taken hold of her as of a woman in travail.

וַחֲבָלִ֛ים (חֲבָלִ֛ים) cha.va.Lim “pains”

The pangs of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is a son not wise; for at the time of the breaking forth of children, he was not there.

חֶבְלֵ֥י chev.Lei “[the] pains of”