Jeremiah 30:6
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6 Ask now, and see,
can a man bear a child?
(A)Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach (B)like a woman in labor?
(C)Why has every face turned pale?
Joel 2:6
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6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
(A)all faces grow pale.
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 For I heard (A)a cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
(B)stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”
Isaiah 21:3
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3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(A)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.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (A)sudden destruction will come upon them (B)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Hosea 13:13
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13 (A)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
(B)at the opening of the womb.
Jeremiah 22:23
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23 O inhabitant of (A)Lebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
(B)pain as of a woman in labor!”
Jeremiah 6:24
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24 We have heard the report of it;
(A)our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
(B)pain as of a woman in labor.
Psalm 48:6
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John 16:21-22
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21 (A)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 (B)So also you have sorrow now, but (C)I will see you again, and (D)your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
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Micah 4:9-10
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9 Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in you?
(B)Has your counselor perished,
that (C)pain seized you like a woman in labor?
10 (D)Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for (E)now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you (F)shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
(G)there the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
Footnotes
- Micah 4:10 Or push
Daniel 5:6
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6 (A)Then the king's color changed, (B)and his thoughts alarmed him; (C)his limbs gave way, and (D)his knees knocked together.
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Jeremiah 50:43
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43 “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 49:24
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24 (A)Damascus has become feeble, (B)she turned to flee,
and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as (C)of a woman in labor.
Isaiah 29:22
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22 Therefore thus says the Lord, (A)who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob shall no more be ashamed,
no more shall his face grow pale.
Isaiah 13:6-9
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6 (A)Wail, for (B)the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty[a] it will come!
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart (C)will melt.
8 They will be dismayed:
(D)pangs and agony will seize them;
(E)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, (F)the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and (G)to destroy its sinners from it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when they set as head over you
those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
(A)Will not pangs take hold of you
like those of a woman in labor?
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