Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 30:6

6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, , as a woman in travail , and all faces are turned into paleness .

The voice which I hear is not the voice of women, but of men, and those the strongest and stoutest men, yet it is a voice like the voice of Women in travail, roaring out through their pains, and the posture I see the generality of men are in, is like the posture of Women in travail, who hold their hands upon their loins, hoping thereby to abate their pain. Was it ever heard that Males had the pains that use to attend Child-bearing Women?

And all mens faces look as if they had the yellow-[illegible: 3 letters]ndise; or are of the colour of blasted Corn as the word signifieth, Deut. 28.22.

Marginal references: Heb. A male.; chap. 4.31. and 6.24.