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
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."
Isaiah 26:16
O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.
Jeremiah 30:6
Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?
Hosea 13:13
The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!
Micah 4:10
Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the Lord will deliver you from the power of your enemies.
Revelation 12:2
She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth.
For
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
Genesis 30:23
She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "God has taken away my shame."
1 Samuel 1:26
She said, "Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.
Psalm 113:9
He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Luke 1:57
Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband."
General references
Isaiah 26:17
As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O Lord.
Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
John 16:6
Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.