Isaiah 13:8
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8 They will be dismayed:
(A)pangs and agony will seize them;
(B)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (A)sudden destruction will come upon them (B)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Isaiah 26:17
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17 (A)Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
Isaiah 21:3-4
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3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(A)pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
(B)the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
John 16:21
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21 (A)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
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Joel 2:6
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6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
(A)all faces grow pale.
Daniel 5:5-6
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5 (A)Immediately (B)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (C)the hand as it wrote. 6 (D)Then the king's color changed, (E)and his thoughts alarmed him; (F)his limbs gave way, and (G)his knees knocked together.
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Jeremiah 50:43
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43 “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 30:6
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6 Ask now, and see,
can a man bear a child?
(A)Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach (B)like a woman in labor?
(C)Why has every face turned pale?
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 For I heard (A)a cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
(B)stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”
Psalm 48:5-6
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5 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
they were in panic; they took to flight.
6 (A)Trembling took hold of them there,
anguish (B)as of a woman in labor.
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