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.

General references

Bible References

Woman

Revelation 12:2
and, being with child, she cried out in travail, and in the pains of delivery.

For

Luke 1:57
Now the time for Elizabeth to be delivered had fully come; and she gave birth to a son.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written: Rejoice you barren, that do not bear: break forth and cry aloud, you that travail not: for many more are the children of the deserted, than of her that had the husband of the deserted.

General references

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.
John 16:6
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.