12 Bible Verses about Travail

My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -

Because of the labour of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. With his knowledge, he, being just, shall justify my servants: and that a great number. And he shall bear their iniquities.

Fear came there upon them, and sorrow as upon a woman in her travail.

they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame.

And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field breadth from Ephrata, Rachel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril. And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her, "Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also." Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.read more.
And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrata which now is called Bethlehem.

A woman when she travaileth hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

like as when a wife bringeth forth a man child, before she suffer the pain of the birth and anguish of the travail. Who ever heard or saw such things? Doth the ground bear in one day? Or are the people born all at once, as Zion beareth her sons?

Why then art thou now so heavy? Is there no king in thee? Are thy counselors away that thou art so pained, as a woman in her travail? And now, O thou daughter Zion, be sorry: let it grieve thee as a wife labouring with child. For now must thou get thee out of the city, and dwell upon the plain field: Yea, unto Babylon shalt thou go, there shalt thou be delivered, and there the LORD shall loose thee from the hand of thine enemies.

In the meanwhile he plagueth them for a season, until the time that she which shall bear have born: then shall the remnant of his brethren be converted unto the children of Israel.

For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain even unto this time.

For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,

For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?