If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Groaneth

They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

General references

And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.