2 Kings 19:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

Young's Literal Translation
and they say unto him, ‘Thus said Hezekiah—A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

King James Bible
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.

Hebrew
to tell
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

him,
אֵלָ֗יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

“This is what
כֹּ֚ה (kōh)
Adverb
Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now

Hezekiah
חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ (ḥiz·qî·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2396: Hezekiah -- 'Yah has strengthened', a king of Judah, also several other Israelites

says:
אָמַ֣ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

Today
יוֹם־ (yō·wm-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

is a day
הַיּ֣וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

of distress,
צָרָ֧ה (ṣā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival

rebuke,
וְתוֹכֵחָ֛ה (wə·ṯō·w·ḵê·ḥāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8433: Chastisement, correction, refutation, proof

and disgrace;
וּנְאָצָ֖ה (ū·nə·’ā·ṣāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5007: Contempt

for
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the children
בָנִים֙ (ḇā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

have come
בָ֤אוּ (ḇā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to the point of
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

birth,
מַשְׁבֵּ֔ר (maš·bêr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4866: The orifice of the womb

but there is no
אַ֖יִן (’a·yin)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

strength
וְכֹ֥חַ (wə·ḵō·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

to deliver them.
לְלֵדָֽה׃ (lə·lê·ḏāh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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