³ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    pangs have seized me
    like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
    I am dismayed so that I cannot see.^(A)

¹⁷ Like a woman with child
    about to give birth
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we because of you, O Lord;^(A)