Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

The inhabitants

Bible References

We have been in

Isaiah 37:3
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
2 Kings 19:3
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
Hosea 13:13
The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

We have not

Exodus 5:22
And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?
Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!
1 Samuel 11:13
And Saul said, Not a man is to be put to death today: for today the Lord has made Israel safe.
1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said to Saul, Is death to come to Jonathan, the worker of this great salvation for Israel? Let it not be so: by the living Lord, not one hair of his head is to be touched, for he has been working with God today. So the people kept Jonathan from death.

The inhabitants

John 7:7
It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
1 John 5:19
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain