Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Be amazed one at another

General references

Bible References

Pangs

Isaiah 21:3
Therefore I am filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
Isaiah 26:17
As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You, Lord.
Psalm 48:5
They looked and froze with fear;
they fled in terror.
Jeremiah 30:6
Ask and see
whether a male can give birth.
Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor
and every face turned pale?
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them,
and his hands fall helpless.
Distress has seized him—
pain, like a woman in labor.
Daniel 5:5
At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Be amazed one at another

Joel 2:6
Nations writhe in horror before them;
all faces turn pale.
Nahum 2:10
Desolation, decimation, devastation!
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!

General references

Isaiah 26:17
As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You, Lord.
Jeremiah 51:54
The sound of a cry from Babylon!
The sound of great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans!

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