27 Bible Verses about Labour Pains
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He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
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.
They have the opportunity to live again, but they are not smart enough to take it. They are like a baby who is about to be born but will not come out of its mother's womb.
He will give them up, until the time that she who is giving birth delivers. Then the remainder of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
It is written, Rejoice, barren woman who does not give birth. Break forth and cry, you who do not labor; for there are more children of the desolate than of the one who has the husband.
They will be terrified! Pains and anguish will possess them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in amazement with their faces reddened with excitement (aflame).
What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Will pain grip you like a woman in labor?
You who dwell in Lebanon nested in the cedars. How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!
Ask now and see: Can a man give birth to a child? Why, then, do I see every strong man holding his stomach in pain like a woman giving birth to a child? Why has every face turned pale?
The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor.
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and he loses courage. Anguish will grip him as pain grips a woman in labor.
What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor.
I kept silent for a long time. I did not answer my people. The time to act has come. I cry out like a woman in labor.
We have heard the report! Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us! We have pain like a woman in childbirth.
Like a woman with child and about to give birth struggles and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Jehovah. We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth. We have not given birth to people of the world.
I hear a woman in labor. I hear the woman cry with anguish as she gives birth to her first child. My people Zion gasp for breath. They stretch out their hands and say: How horrible it is for us! My life is exhausted by the presence of murderers!
The towns of Moab will be captured. The strong walled cities will be defeated. Then Moab's warriors will be frightened like a woman who is giving birth.'
The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.
Why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? Has pain taken hold of you like a woman in childbirth?
Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth! For now you will go out of the city and dwell in the field. You will go to Babylon where you will be rescued. Jehovah will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you
These things are the beginning of birth pains (Greek: odin': in the throws of pain, such as childbirth).
Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines. These things are the beginning of pain (sorrow) (trouble).
When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.
For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now.
