Font Size
Jeremiah 30:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 30:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Ask now and see:
Can a man bear a child?
Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor?
Why has every face turned pale?(A)
Jeremiah 30:6
New International Version
Jeremiah 30:6
New International Version
Nahum 2:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nahum 2:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
Hearts faint and knees tremble;
all loins quake;
all faces grow pale!(A)
Nahum 2:10
New International Version
Nahum 2:10
New International Version
Joel 2:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Joel 2:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Read full chapter
Footnotes
- 2.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Joel 2:6
New International Version
Joel 2:6
New International Version
Jeremiah 4:31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 4:31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
31 For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one bringing forth her first child,
the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”(A)
Isaiah 21:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Isaiah 21:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
pangs have seized me
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.(A)
Isaiah 21:3
New International Version
Isaiah 21:3
New International Version
1 Thessalonians 5:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Thessalonians 5:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(A)
Read full chapter
1 Thessalonians 5:3
New International Version
1 Thessalonians 5:3
New International Version
3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”(A) destruction will come on them suddenly,(B) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.(C)
Hosea 13:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Hosea 13:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Hosea 13:13
New International Version
Hosea 13:13
New International Version
Jeremiah 22:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 22:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will groan[a] when pangs come upon you,
pain as of a woman in labor!
Footnotes
- 22.23 Gk Vg Syr: Heb will be pitied
Jeremiah 22:23
New International Version
Jeremiah 22:23
New International Version
Jeremiah 6:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 6:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 “We have heard news of them;
our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
pain as of a woman in labor.(A)
Jeremiah 6:24
New International Version
Jeremiah 6:24
New International Version
Psalm 48:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Psalm 48:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 trembling took hold of them there,
pains as of a woman in labor,
Psalm 48:6
New International Version
Psalm 48:6
New International Version
John 16:21-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
John 16:21-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.(A) 22 So you have pain now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.(B)
Read full chapter
John 16:21-22
New International Version
John 16:21-22
New International Version
21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain(A) because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. 22 So with you: Now is your time of grief,(B) but I will see you again(C) and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.(D)
Micah 4:9-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Micah 4:9-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Now why do you cry aloud?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished,
that pangs have seized you like a woman in labor?(A)
10 Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you shall go forth from the city
and camp in the open country;
you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
there the Lord will redeem you
from the hands of your enemies.(B)
Footnotes
- 4.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Micah 4:9-10
New International Version
Micah 4:9-10
New International Version
9 Why do you now cry aloud—
have you no king[a](A)?
Has your ruler[b] perished,
that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?(B)
10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(C)
there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(D) you
out of the hand of your enemies.
Daniel 5:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Daniel 5:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 5:6
New International Version
Daniel 5:6
New International Version
6 His face turned pale(A) and he was so frightened(B) that his legs became weak(C) and his knees were knocking.(D)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.