Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will our land be dry and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people. These people say: God does not see what we are doing.
Jeremiah 12:11
They made it a wasteland. It lies desolate before me. The whole land has become a desert, and no one cares.
Mark 16:15
He said to them, Go into the entire world, and preach the good news to the whole creation.
Psalm 48:6
Panic seized them there, Anguish, like a woman in childbirth.
John 16:21
A woman in tribulation has sorrow, because her hour to give birth has come. When she delivers the child, she remembers no more anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.
Colossians 1:23
Provided that you continue in the faith, grounded (on the foundation) and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news you heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven. For this I, Paul, was made a minister.
Revelation 12:2
She, being with child, cried out in labor pains, ready to deliver.