ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף ישעיהו 66:8

you were dug Heb. נֻקַּרְתֶּם, an expression similar to (Ex. 33.22) “The cleft (נִקְרַת) of the rock”; (Prov. 30:17) “The ravens of the brook shall pick it (יִקְּרוּהָ).” And who is the rock? He is Abraham your forefather. And who is the hole? She is Sarah who bore you. [תְּחוֹלֶלְכֶם means] ‘who bore you,’ an expression similar to (infra 66: 8) “For Zion experienced pangs (חָלָה) and also bore.”

as a happy mother of children (Isa. 66:8): “that Zion both experienced birth pangs and bore her children.”

He that saith to his father, etc. Or can the son before his birth say to his father, What wilt thou beget,¹³A. V., What begettest thou. What hast thou brought forth.¹³A. V., What begettest thou. What hast thou brought forth. or to the woman, that is, to his mother, what wilt thou bring forth? תחילין Thou will bring forth. Comp. כי חלה נם ילדה ציון Zion travailed, she brought forth (66:8)