'Pains' in the Bible

He said to the woman:I will intensify your labor pains;you will bear children in anguish.Your desire will be for your husband,yet he will rule over you.

Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth because her labor pains came on her.

“Notice I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the Lord—3,775 tons of gold, 37,750 tons of silver, and bronze and iron that can’t be weighed because there is so much of it. I have also provided timber and stone, but you will need to add more to them.

I would still live in terror of all my pains.I know You will not acquit me.

Night pierces my bones,but my gnawing pains never rest.

Many pains come to the wicked,but the one who trusts in the Lordwill have faithful love surrounding him.

As a pregnant woman about to give birthwrithes and cries out in her pains,so we were before You, Lord.

Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses,and He carried our pains;but we in turn regarded Him stricken,struck down by God, and afflicted.

What will you say when He appointsclose friends as leaders over you,ones you yourself trained?Won’t labor pains seize you,as they do a woman in labor?

You residents of Lebanon,nestled among the cedars,how you will groan when labor pains come on you,agony like a woman in labor.

Damascus has become weak;she has turned to run;panic has gripped her.Distress and labor pains have seized herlike a woman in labor.

Labor pains come on him.He is not a wise son;when the time comes,he will not be born.

Then the news about Him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to Him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And He healed them.

All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, yet they did not repent of their actions.