Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
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Bible References
General references
John 16:21
For when a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come; but when she has borne the child she no longer remembers the distress, because of joy that a man is born into the world.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.