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She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth.(A)

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His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to deliver a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.(A)

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19 My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,(A)

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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)

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27 For it is written,

“Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children,
    burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs,
for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous
    than the children of the one who is married.”(A)

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Therefore he shall give them up until the time
    when she who is in labor has brought forth;
then the rest of his kindred shall return
    to the people of Israel.(A)

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Before she was in labor
    she gave birth;
before her pain came upon her
    she delivered a son.(A)
Who has heard of such a thing?
    Who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day?
    Shall a nation be delivered in one moment?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor
    she delivered her children.(B)
Shall I open the womb and not deliver?
    says the Lord;
shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb?
    says your God.

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11     Out of his anguish he shall see;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
    The righteous one,[a] my servant, shall make many righteous,
    and he shall bear their iniquities.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 53.11 Or and he shall find satisfaction. Through his knowledge, the righteous one

The Eternal Covenant of Peace

54 Shout for joy, O barren one who has borne no children;
    burst into song and shout,
    you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the desolate woman will be more
    than the children of the one who is married, says the Lord.(A)

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