For I have heard
shama` (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
a voice
qowl (kole)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
as of a woman in travail
chalah (khaw-law')
to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
and the anguish
tsarah (tsaw-raw')
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival -- adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
as of her that bringeth forth her first child
bakar (baw-kar')
make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).
the voice
qowl (kole)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
of the daughter
bath (bath)
apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, first, old, owl, town, village.
of Zion
Tsiyown (tsee-yone')
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem -- Zion.
that bewaileth
yaphach (yaw-fakh')
to breathe hard, i.e. (by implication) to sigh -- bewail self.
herself that spreadeth
paras (paw-ras')
to break apart, disperse, etc. -- break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
her hands
kaph (kaf)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
saying Woe
'owy (o'-ee)
lamentation; also interjectionally Oh! -- alas, woe.
is me now for my soul
nephesh (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
is wearied
`ayeph (aw-yafe')
to languish -- be wearied.
because of murderers
harag (haw-rag')
to smite with deadly intent -- destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), surely.
