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Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces[ shall be as] flames.
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Isaiah 21:3
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing[ of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing[ of it].
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Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us,[ and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Micah 4:9-10
Now why dost thou cry out aloud?[ is there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go[ even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
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Jeremiah 49:22
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
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Jeremiah 30:6
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him,[ and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
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Isaiah 26:17-18
Like as a woman with child,[ that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain,[ and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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Jeremiah 49:24
Damascus is waxed feeble,[ and] turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on[ her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
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Jeremiah 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in[ their] holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
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Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,[ and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion,[ that] bewaileth herself,[ that] spreadeth her hands,[ saying], Woe[ is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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1 Thessalonians 5 3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.