Jeremiah 6:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ We have heard the report of it; our hands become feeble and helpless. Anguish has taken hold of us, pangs like that of a woman in childbirth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

Common English Bible

²⁴ We have heard reports of them and are panic-stricken; distress overwhelms us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ 'We have heard of their fame. Our hands have become weakened. Tribulation has overtaken us, like the pains of a woman giving birth.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24 Cross References

Psalm 48:6

trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 28:19

As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!”

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 48:41

the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs;

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 50:43

“The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in travail.

Ezekiel 7:17

All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water.

Daniel 5:9

Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed; and his lords were perplexed.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.