en_tn_condensed/2ki/19/03.md

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/jit/figs-metaphor)