Jeremiah 49:22
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22 Behold, (A)He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
And spread His wings over Bozrah;
The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
Jeremiah 48:40-41
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40 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (A)one shall fly like an eagle,
And (B)spread his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth is taken,
And the strongholds are surprised;
(C)The mighty men’s hearts in Moab on that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
Hosea 8:1
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The Apostasy of Israel
8 “Set the [a]trumpet to your mouth!
He shall come (A)like an eagle against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:1 ram’s horn, Heb. shophar
Isaiah 13:8
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8 And they will be afraid.
(A)Pangs[a] and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:8 Sharp pains
Jeremiah 49:24
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24 Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
(A)Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in [a]labor.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 49:24 childbirth
Jeremiah 30:6
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6 Ask now, and see,
Whether a [a]man is ever in [b]labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
(A)Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 30:6 Lit. male can give birth
- Jeremiah 30:6 childbirth
Jeremiah 6:24
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24 We have heard the report of it;
Our hands grow feeble.
(A)Anguish has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in [a]labor.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 6:24 childbirth
Jeremiah 4:13
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13 “Behold, he shall come up like clouds,
And (A)his chariots like a whirlwind.
(B)His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”
Deuteronomy 28:49
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49 (A)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (B)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
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1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (A)sudden destruction comes upon them, (B)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Daniel 7:4
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4 The first was (A)like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a (B)man’s heart was given to it.
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Jeremiah 22:23
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23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like (A)the pain of a woman in [a]labor?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 22:23 childbirth
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when He punishes you?
For you have taught them
To be chieftains, to be head over you.
Will not (A)pangs seize you,
Like a woman in [a]labor?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 13:21 childbirth
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 “For I have heard a voice as of a woman in [a]labor,
The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself;
She (A)spreads her hands, saying,
‘Woe is me now, for my soul is [b]weary
Because of murderers!’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:31 childbirth
- Jeremiah 4:31 faint
Isaiah 26:17
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17 As (A)a woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her [a]pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:17 sharp pains
Isaiah 21:3
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3 Therefore (A)my loins are filled with pain;
(B)Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I was [a]distressed when I heard it;
I was dismayed when I saw it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:3 Lit. bowed
Psalm 18:5
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5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
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