“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.^(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.^(B)”

⁸ Terror^(A) will seize them,
    pain and anguish will grip^(B) them;
    they will writhe like a woman in labor.^(C)
They will look aghast at each other,
    their faces aflame.^(D)

¹⁷ As a pregnant woman about to give birth^(A)
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
    so were we in your presence, Lord.

¹⁴ “For a long time I have kept silent,^(A)
    I have been quiet and held myself back.^(B)
But now, like a woman in childbirth,
    I cry out, I gasp and pant.^(C)