Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Bible References

General references

Isaiah 54:1
“Shout for joy, O barren one, she who has not given birth;
Break forth into joyful shouting and rejoice, she who has not gone into labor [with child]!
For the [spiritual] sons of the desolate one will be more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above [that is, the way of faith, represented by Sarah] is free; she is our mother.
Revelation 12:1
And a great sign [warning of an ominous and frightening future event] appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.