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Isaiah 13:8
They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.
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Jeremiah 4:31
I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands:“ Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers!”
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Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?
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Jeremiah 38:22
‘ All the women who remain in the palace of Judah’s king will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon and will say to you,“ Your trusted friends misled you and overcame you. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.”
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Isaiah 39:2-4
Hezekiah was pleased with the letters, and he showed the envoys his treasure house— the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil— and all his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his palace and in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him,“ What did these men say, and where did they come to you from?” Hezekiah replied,“ They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.”Isaiah asked,“ What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah answered,“ They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”
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Isaiah 10:3
What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
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Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard about it, and our hands have become weak. Distress has seized us— pain, like a woman in labor.
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Ezekiel 28:9
Will you still say,“ I am a god,” in the presence of those who slay you? Yet you will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.
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Jeremiah 30:6
Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
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Jeremiah 22:23
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.
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1 Thessalonians 5 3
When they say,“ Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Isaiah 21:3
Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.
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Jeremiah 48:41
The towns have been captured, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
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2 Kings 16 7
So Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying,“ I am your servant and your son. March up and save me from the grasp of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”