Isaiah 37:3
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3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.(A)
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Hosea 13:13
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13 The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the proper time he does not present himself
at the mouth of the womb.(A)
Isaiah 66:9
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9 Shall I open the womb and not deliver?
says the Lord;
shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb?
says your God.
Isaiah 26:17-18
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17 Like a woman with child
about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we because of you, O Lord;(A)
18 we were with child; we writhed,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and no one is born to inhabit the world.(B)
Psalm 50:15
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15 Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”(A)
2 Kings 19:3
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3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
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Isaiah 33:2
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2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you.
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.(A)
Psalm 95:8
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8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,(A)
Psalm 91:15
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15 When they call to me, I will answer them;
I will be with them in trouble;
I will rescue them and honor them.(A)
2 Chronicles 15:4
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4 but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.(A)
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Revelation 3:19
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19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)
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Isaiah 22:5
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5 For the Lord God of hosts has a day
of tumult and trampling and confusion
in the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a cry for help to the mountains.(A)
Hosea 5:15-6:1
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Jeremiah 30:7
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7 Alas! that day is so great
there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob,
yet he shall be rescued from it.(A)
Psalm 116:3-4
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3 The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.(A)
4 Then I called on the name of the Lord,
“O Lord, I pray, save my life!”
Isaiah 25:8
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8 he will swallow up death forever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.(A)
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