'Great Distress' in the Bible

"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.

But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food.

"My lord, you know," I replied. "They are those," he said, "who have just passed through the great distress, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.