Micah 4:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pangs have seized you like a woman in travail?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken you like a woman in labor?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

Common English Bible

⁹ Now why do you cry out so loudly? Isn’t the king in you? Or has your counselor perished, so that pain has seized you like that of a woman in labor?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Now, why have you come together in grief? Is there not a king in you, or has your counselor gone away? For sorrow has overtaken you, like the pain of giving birth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counsellor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour?

Micah 4:9 Cross References

Isaiah 13:8

and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

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 26:17

Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs, when she is near her time, so were we because of thee, O Lord;

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 30:10

“Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for lo, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

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 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.

Jeremiah 8:19

Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?”

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was taken in their pits, he of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Hosea 10:3

For now they will say: “We have no king, for we fear not the Lord, and a king, what could he do for us?”

Hosea 13:13

The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Micah 5:3

Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.

John 16:21

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

Revelation 12:2

she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.