Isaiah 21:3
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3 For this reason my (A)loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a (B)woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 For I heard a voice cry as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child.
The voice of the daughter of Zion (A)gasping for breath,
(B)Stretching out her [a]hands, saying,
“Ah, woe to me, for [b]I faint before murderers.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:31 Lit palms
- Jeremiah 4:31 Lit my soul faints
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Former (A)companions to be head over you?
Will (B)sharp pains not take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?
Jeremiah 30:6
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6 Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his waist, (A)as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?
Jeremiah 49:24
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24 Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
(A)Distress and labor pains have seized her
Like a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 50:43
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43 The (A)king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
(B)Distress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.
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