Isaiah 21:3
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 For this reason my (A)loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a (B)woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
Jeremiah 4:31
New American Standard Bible 1995
31 For I heard a [a]cry as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The [b]cry of the daughter of Zion (A)gasping for breath,
(B)Stretching out her [c]hands, saying,
“Ah, woe is me, for [d]I faint before murderers.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:31 Lit sound
- Jeremiah 4:31 Lit sound
- Jeremiah 4:31 Lit palms
- Jeremiah 4:31 Lit my soul faints
Jeremiah 13:21
New American Standard Bible 1995
21 “What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Former [a](A)companions to be head over you?
Will not (B)pangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 13:21 Or chieftains
Jeremiah 30:6
New American Standard Bible 1995
6 ‘Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his loins, (A)as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?
Jeremiah 49:24
New American Standard Bible 1995
24 “Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
(A)Distress and pangs have taken hold of her
Like a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 50:43
New American Standard Bible 1995
43 “The (A)king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
(B)Distress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.
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