Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must the land mourn
And the grass of the countryside wither?
Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it,
The beasts and the birds are consumed and are swept away [by the drought],
Because men [mocking me] have said, “He will not [live long enough to] see [what happens at] our final end.”

Jeremiah 12:11

“They have made it a wasteland,
Desolate, it mourns before Me;
The whole land has been made a wasteland,
Because no man takes it to heart.

Mark 16:15

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

Psalm 48:6

Panic seized them there,
And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.

John 16:21

A woman, when she is in labor, has pain because her time [to give birth] has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of her joy that a child has come into the world.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to frustration and futility, not willingly [because of some intentional fault on its part], but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope

Colossians 1:23

[and He will do this] if you continue in the faith, well-grounded and steadfast, and not shifting away from the [confident] hope [that is a result] of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which [gospel] I, Paul, was made a minister.

Revelation 12:2

She was with child (the Messiah) and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

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Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

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Romans 8:20

Mark 16:15

Colossians 1:23

Groaneth

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For the creation was subjected to frustration and futility, not willingly [because of some intentional fault on its part], but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

Groaneth

Panic seized them there,
And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.

“They have made it a wasteland,
Desolate, it mourns before Me;
The whole land has been made a wasteland,
Because no man takes it to heart.

She was with child (the Messiah) and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

General references

All living beings that moved on the earth perished—birds and cattle (domestic animals), [wild] animals, all things that swarm and crawl on the earth, and all mankind.

[do none of these things] so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.

As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest, the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it.

How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlessly
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer.