Isaiah 13:8
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8 And they will be afraid.
(A)Pangs[a] and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:8 Sharp pains
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (A)sudden destruction comes upon them, (B)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Nahum 2:10
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10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [a]are drained of color.
Footnotes
- Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6
Isaiah 26:17
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17 As (A)a woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her [a]pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:17 sharp pains
Isaiah 21:3-4
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3 Therefore (A)my loins are filled with pain;
(B)Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I was [a]distressed when I heard it;
I was dismayed when I saw it.
4 My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;
(C)The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:3 Lit. bowed
John 16:21
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21 (A)A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, 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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Footnotes
- Joel 2:6 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness
Daniel 5:5-6
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5 (A)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his (B)knees knocked against each other.
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Jeremiah 50:43
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43 “The king of Babylon has (A)heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in (B)childbirth.
Jeremiah 30:6
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6 Ask now, and see,
Whether a [a]man is ever in [b]labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
(A)Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 30:6 Lit. male can give birth
- Jeremiah 30:6 childbirth
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 “For I have heard a voice as of a woman in [a]labor,
The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself;
She (A)spreads her hands, saying,
‘Woe is me now, for my soul is [b]weary
Because of murderers!’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:31 childbirth
- Jeremiah 4:31 faint
Psalm 48:5-6
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5 They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
6 Fear (A)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
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