Revelation 12:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² She was pregnant, and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² She was pregnant and she cried out in her birth pangs, in the anguish of her delivery.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

Common English Bible

² She was pregnant, and she cried out because she was in labor, in pain from giving birth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And being with child, she cried out while giving birth, and she was suffering in order to give birth.

Revelation 12:2 Cross References

Matthew 24:8

But all these things are [only] the beginning of terrible times.

John 16:21

A woman has pain when giving birth because her time has come. But when the child is born, she does not remember the intense suffering because she is so happy over the child being born into the world.

Galatians 4:19

My little children [i.e., dear ones], I am again deeply pained [as a woman in childbirth] over your [spiritual] condition, until [the life of] Christ becomes formed in your character.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written [Isa. 40:1], “[Woman] you should be happy that you have not had children. Cry over your inability to experience the pain of childbirth. For the deserted woman has had more children than the one with a husband.”

Revelation 12:4

And his tail swept away one third of the stars of the sky and threw them to earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he could eat her child as soon as it was born.