Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

The, etc

Romans 8:20
For, unto vanity, hath creation been made subject - not by choice, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope
Colossians 1:23
If, at least, ye are abiding still in the faith, founded and firm, and not to be moved away from the hope of the glad-message which ye have heard, which hath been proclaimed in all creation which is under heaven, - of which, I Paul, have become minister.

Groaneth

Psalm 48:6
Trembling, seized them, there, Pangs. like hers who is in travail.
Jeremiah 12:11
It hath been made a desolation, It hath mourned unto me as desolate, - All the land hath become a desolation, For, no man, layeth it to heart.
John 16:21
A woman, as soon as she is about to bring forth, hath, grief, because her hour hath come; but, as soon as she hath given birth to the child, no longer, remembereth she the anguish, by reason of the joy, that a human being into the world hath been born.
Revelation 12:2
and she was with child, and crieth out, being in pangs and in anguish to bring forth?

General references

Genesis 7:21
And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, - land all mankind.
Leviticus 18:28
So shall the land not vomit you, through your making it unclean, - as it vomited the nation which was before you.
Leviticus 26:35
All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath, - the which she kept not as your sabbaths, - while ye dwelt thereupon.
Joel 1:18
How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them, - even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed!