'Pains' in the Bible

and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, with intense and terrible, tormenting pain.”

But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish and the time of unprecedented trouble].

For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now.

While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].