This day, &c.] At this time we are exceedingly mlested by the enemy, who reproacheth us, and provoketh God himself. blasphemy] Or, provocation. the children, &c.] A parabolicall speech, wherein he resembleth Jerusalem to a woman in travail, the inhabitants, to infants in the womb, the straitnesse of the siege, and threatning of the potent enemy, to pains of travail, the weaknesse of the Jews, to the disability of the woman in travail to help her self. The sense is this, we are brought to the extremity of danger, and are utterly unable to help our selves: Now is the time for the LORD to shew himself.