Jeremiah 30:6 - Exposition

Whether a man doth travail with child. Great, indeed, must be the terror when no adequate figure suggests itself but that of a woman in her pangs (comp. Jeremiah 6:24 ; Jeremiah 13:21 ; Jeremiah 22:23 ; Isaiah 13:8 ). All faces are turned into paleness. So Joel ( Joel 2:6 ) and Nahum ( Nahum 2:10 ), "All faces withdraw their colour." For "paleness" the Septuagint has "jaundice"—a possible meaning of the Hebrew; comp. χλωρὸς , "pale, bilious looking'' in medical writings, but properly "greenish-yellow," like the Hebrew noun.