John 16:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Woman

For

General references

Isaiah 26:17

Matthew 5:4

John 16:6

Bible References

Woman

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

LORD, in trouble they have visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.

Ask ye now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of sons.

Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail. For now thou shall go forth out of the city, and shall dwell in the field, and shall come even to Babylon. There thou shall be rescued. There LORD w

And having in her womb, she cried out, suffering birth pains, and suffering to give birth.

For

And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.

And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach.

And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by thee here, praying to LORD.

He makes the barren woman to keep house, a joyful mother of sons. Praise ye LORD.

Now the time for Elizabeth was fulfilled for her to give birth, and she brought forth a son.

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren woman not giving birth. Burst forth and shout, thou not suffering birth pains, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband.

General references

As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before thee, O LORD.

Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.