Psalm 48:6

Zion Exalted

⁵ They saw it, then they were amazed;
They were terrified, they fled in alarm.
⁶ Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.
⁷ With the east wind
You break the ships of Tarshish.

Like a Woman in Labor

Woman in Labor

In Labor

Hosea 13:13

The pains of childbirth come upon him;
He is not a wise son,
For it is not the time that he should delay at the opening of the womb.

Exodus 15:15-16

“Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed;
The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them;
All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

Isaiah 13:6-8

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 21:3

For this reason my loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

Jeremiah 30:6-7

‘Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?

Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.