³¹ I hear a cry like a woman ·having a baby [writhing in labor],
    ·distress [trouble] like a woman having her first child.
It is the sound of ·Jerusalem [^Lthe daughter of Zion; ^Cthe location of the Temple] gasping for breath.
    She ·lifts [^Lspreads] her hands in prayer and says,
“·Oh! I am about to [Woe to me, for I am] faint
    before my murderers!”