Jeremiah 4:31

Judah would cry out like a woman giving birth for the first time. She would be in agony because of the adversaries who had come to put her to death. Neither pretty words (Jeremiah 4:30), nor a pitiful cry (Jeremiah 4:31), would turn the Lord back from His decision to judge His people. [Note: Jensen, p. 31.]

". . . Jerusalem’s demise [in a fatal miscarriage] would be like that of a prostitute giving birth to a firstborn bastard." [Note: Craigie, p. 84.]