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Non-Exact Match

Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?

Verse ConceptsLabour PainsBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babybaby

In fact, I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, reaching out for help, saying, "I am done in! My life is ebbing away before these murderers!"

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfVoicesLabour PainsHaving No BreathFaintingJudged As Murderers

The people cry out, "We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!

Verse ConceptsBad NewsLabour PainsNo Strength Left

"Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water."

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodBeing ForsakenFalse ConfidenceCisternsdrought, spiritualFountainsTwoDoubtSpring Of WaterThirstTrust, Lack OfWellsFountains Of LifeBreaking ContainersMetaphorical SpringsTwo Intangible ThingsWells, Figurative Use

You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Verse ConceptsCedarLabour Pains

What will you say when the Lord appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Verse ConceptsAliancesLabour PainsPeople Teaching

The king of Babylon will become paralyzed with fear when he hears news of their coming. Anguish will grip him, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Verse ConceptsLabour PainsNo Strength Left