MSTC(i)
7 like as when a wife bringeth forth a man child, before she suffer the pain of the birth and anguish of the travail.
8 Who ever heard or saw such things? Doth the ground bear in one day? Or are the people born all at once, as Zion beareth her sons?
9 For thus sayeth the LORD: Am I he that maketh others to bear, and bear not myself? Am not I he that beareth, and maketh barren, sayeth thy God?