For just like a woman in labor hurries to escape the anguish of the labor pains, even so these places hurry to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning.
KJV
2 Esdras 4:42
For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
Parallel Translations
For as she that is with childe, hasteth to escape the necessitie of the trauail, so do these places hast to deliuer those things that are committed vnto them.