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.

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Bible References

Woman

Revelation 12:2
and being in gestation, she also cries, travailing in pain, and suffering to bring forth.

For

Luke 1:57
And the time of her parturition was fulfilled unto Elizabeth and she brought forth a son.

General references

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are the meek, because they shall inherit the earth.
John 16:6
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.