Isaiah 37:3
New Living Translation
3 They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.
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Hosea 13:13
New Living Translation
13 Pain has come to the people
like the pain of childbirth,
but they are like a child
who resists being born.
The moment of birth has arrived,
but they stay in the womb!
Isaiah 66:9
New Living Translation
9 Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth
and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord.
“No! I would never keep this nation from being born,”
says your God.
2 Kings 19:3
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3 They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.
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Isaiah 26:17-18
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17 Just as a pregnant woman
writhes and cries out in pain as she gives birth,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We, too, writhe in agony,
but nothing comes of our suffering.
We have not given salvation to the earth,
nor brought life into the world.
Psalm 50:15
New Living Translation
15 Then call on me when you are in trouble,
and I will rescue you,
and you will give me glory.”
Isaiah 33:2
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2 But Lord, be merciful to us,
for we have waited for you.
Be our strong arm each day
and our salvation in times of trouble.
Isaiah 22:5
New Living Translation
5 Oh, what a day of crushing defeat!
What a day of confusion and terror
brought by the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
upon the Valley of Vision!
The walls of Jerusalem have been broken,
and cries of death echo from the mountainsides.
Psalm 95:8
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8 The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah,
as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
Psalm 91:15
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15 When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble.
I will rescue and honor them.
2 Chronicles 15:4
New Living Translation
4 But whenever they were in trouble and turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him out, they found him.
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Revelation 3:19
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19 I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.
Hosea 5:15-6:1
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15 Then I will return to my place
until they admit their guilt and turn to me.
For as soon as trouble comes,
they will earnestly search for me.”
A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces;
now he will heal us.
He has injured us;
now he will bandage our wounds.
Jeremiah 30:7
New Living Translation
7 In all history there has never been such a time of terror.
It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel.[a]
Yet in the end they will be saved!
Psalm 116:3-4
New Living Translation
3 Death wrapped its ropes around me;
the terrors of the grave[a] overtook me.
I saw only trouble and sorrow.
4 Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“Please, Lord, save me!”
Footnotes
- 116:3 Hebrew of Sheol.
Isaiah 25:8
New Living Translation
8 He will swallow up death forever!
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears.
He will remove forever all insults and mockery
against his land and people.
The Lord has spoken!
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