## as when children come to the beginning of the birth canal, but the mother has no strength to deliver them ##

"like a woman who is about to give birth to a child, but she is not strong enough to do it" (UDB) (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of the chief commander ##

"Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all that the chief commander has said"

## whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God ##

This can be a separate sentence: His master, the king of Assyria sent him to defy the living God."

## and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard ##

"and perhaps Yahweh your God will rebuke the chief commander for what he said"