Before she travailed... — The mother, as the next verse shows, is Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow, is the new Israel, the true Israel of God. The same figure has met us in Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1, and is implied in Matthew 24:8. Its antithesis is found in Isaiah 37:3.
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Isaiah 66:7
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.