Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth.

Galatians 4:19

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

Isaiah 53:11

He will see it out of His anguish,
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous Servant will justify many,
and He will carry their iniquities.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth he might devour her child.

Isaiah 54:1

“Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth;
burst into song and shout,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the forsaken one will be more
than the children of the married woman,”
says the Lord.

Isaiah 66:7-9

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

Micah 5:3

Therefore, He will abandon them until the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then the rest of His brothers will return
to the people of Israel.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written:

Rejoice, childless woman,
who does not give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate are many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Revelation 12:2

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

Travailing

Galatians 4:19

General references

Isaiah 66:7

Matthew 2:7

Bible References

Travailing

He will see it out of His anguish,
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous Servant will justify many,
and He will carry their iniquities.

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

Therefore, He will abandon them until the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then the rest of His brothers will return
to the people of Israel.

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

General references

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared.