Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 19:3

3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke , and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth .

Either, 1. From God, wherein God rebukes and chastens us sorely. Or rather, 2. From the Assyrian, who Reviles and Reproacheth us: for his business here is to complain, not of God, but of the Assyrian.

We are like a poor Travelling Woman in great Extremity, and having no strength left to help her self, and to bring forth her Infant into the World. We have attempted to deliver our selves from the Assyrian Yoke; and had carried on that work to some maturity, and as we thought, brought it to the Birth; but now we have no might to finish, unless thou assist us. We have begun an happy Reformation, and are hindred by this insolent Assyrian, from bringing it to perfection. See 2 Chron. 32. 1.

Marginal references: Or, provocation.