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17 (A)As the [a]woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,
Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.

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  1. Isaiah 26:17 Or pregnant woman

31 For I heard a sound as of a woman in labor pains,
The distress as of one giving birth to her first child,
The sound of the daughter of Zion (A)gasping for breath,
(B)Stretching out her [a]hands, saying,
“Ah, woe is me, for my soul faints before murderers.”

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  1. Jeremiah 4:31 Lit palms

21 (A)Whenever a woman is in labor she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a [a]child has been born into the world.

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  1. John 16:21 Lit human being