Isaiah Chapter 66 verse 7 Holy Bible
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.
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Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.
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Before she is pained she hath brought forth, Before a pang cometh to her, She hath delivered a male.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 7, 8. - Before she travailed, etc. Without any long delay, without any labour pains, Zion will bring forth a man-child - a whole nation, which wilt be born at once, and not grow up by slow degrees. The occupation of Jerusalem by the great body of the returned exiles (Ezra 2:1; Ezra 3:1) is intended. Such a second birth of a nation was strange, and without precedent (comp. Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:19). Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? rather, can a land be brought forth in one day? It is not only a people, but a country, that is born anew; not only the Jews, but Judaea.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Before she travailed . . .--The mother, as the next verse shows, is Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow, is the new Israel, the true Israel of God. The same figure has met us in Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1, and is implied in Matthew 24:8. Its antithesis is found in Isaiah 37:3.
