Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 21:3

3 Therefore are my Ioins filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travelleth I was bowed down at the hearing of it, I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Which he mentions with respect to the following Similitude of childbearing, in which the loins are sorely pained. And this the Prophet speaks, [illegible: 1+ letters]ither 1. in the Name and Person of the Babylonian. Or rather, 2. in his own Name; which is most natural, and agrees best with the last clause of the Verse, which plainly speaks of the torment which he had in the meer hearing of the Word, and seeing the Vision, and not of that which they had in the feeling of it; although the latter is implied in the former; and the Prophet expresseth his horrour in hearing and seeing, to intimate the dreadful horrour which should seize upon them when it came upon them.

Sharp and grievous pains.

Marginal references: Heb. writhed.