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This day is a day of distress
"This is a time of distress"
the children have come to the time of birth, but there is no strength for them to be born
This is a metaphor to describe how the people and their leaders have become so weak and unable to fight the enemy. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
all the words of the chief commander
"everything that the chief commander has said"
lift up your prayer
This a common way (an idiom) to use the action of lifting to metaphorically represent praying earnestly to Yahweh who is above us. AT: "pray earnestly" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)