Isaiah 66:7

A Conservative Version

Before she travailed, she brought forth. Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

Cross References

Isaiah 54:1

Sing, O barren, thou who did not bear. Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou who did not travail with child. For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says LORD.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.

John 16:21

When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Isaiah 37:3

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy, for the sons have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.