I have always held my peace, I have I kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.
Rashi
I was silent from time immemorial Already for a long time I have been silent about the destruction of My Temple, and always... I am still; I restrain Myself This is present tense. Until now My spirit has constrained Me, and from now, like a travailing woman will I cry. I will be terrified Heb. אֶשֹּׁם, I will be terrified. and destroy [them] together And I will long to destroy everyone together, all My adversaries.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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