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.”
Lamentations 1:17
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17 (A)Zion stretches out her hands,
but (B)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
a filthy thing among them.
Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(C)your hands are full of blood.
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?
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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1 Corinthians 9:16
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16 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For (A)necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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Matthew 21:5
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5 (A)“Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
(B)humble, and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt,[a] the foal of a beast of burden.’”
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:5 Or donkey, and on a colt
Micah 7:1
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Wait for the God of Salvation
7 Woe is me! For I have become
(A)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
no (B)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
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.
Ezekiel 23:46-47
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Ezekiel 9:5-6
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5 And to (A)the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. (B)Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. 6 (C)Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but (D)touch no one on whom is the mark. And (E)begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
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Lamentations 2:21
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21 In the dust of the streets
(A)lie the young and the old;
(B)my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
(C)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering (D)without pity.
Lamentations 1:20
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20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
(A)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
because I have been very rebellious.
(B)In the street the sword bereaves;
in the house it is like death.
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.
Jeremiah 49:22
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22 Behold, (A)one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against (B)Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart (C)of a woman in her birth pains.”
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Jeremiah 48:41
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41 (A)the cities shall be taken
and the strongholds seized.
(B)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
like the heart of (C)a woman in her birth pains;
Jeremiah 45:2
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2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:
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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?
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 18:21
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21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to famine;
give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (B)and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my pain unceasing,
(A)my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me (B)like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
Jeremiah 14:18
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18 (A)If I go out into the field,
behold, those pierced by the sword!
(B)And if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
(C)For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”
Jeremiah 10:19
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19 Woe is me because of my hurt!
(A)My wound is grievous.
But I said, “Truly this is an affliction,
and I must bear it.”
Jeremiah 6:23-24
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23 They lay hold on bow and javelin;
they are (A)cruel and have no mercy;
(B)the sound of them is like the roaring sea;
they ride on horses,
set in array as a man for battle,
against you, O daughter of Zion!”
24 We have heard the report of it;
(C)our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
(D)pain as of a woman in labor.
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