'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.
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.