Isaiah 21:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

I'm in terrible pain like a woman giving birth. I'm shocked and hurt so much that I can't hear or see.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:8

Everyone will tremble with pain like a woman giving birth; they will stare at each other with horror on their faces.

Isaiah 26:17

Because of what you did to us, we suffered like a woman about to give birth.

Psalm 48:6

They trembled all over like women giving birth

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will think they are safe and secure. But destruction will suddenly strike them like the pains of a woman about to give birth. And they won't escape.

Jeremiah 48:41

Your cities and fortresses will be captured, and your warriors as fearful as women giving birth.

Isaiah 16:11

Deep in my heart I hurt for Moab and Kir-Heres.

Habakkuk 3:16

When I heard this message, I felt weak from fear, and my lips quivered. My bones seemed to melt, and I stumbled around. But I will patiently wait. Someday those vicious enemies will be struck by disaster.

Jeremiah 50:43

Ever since your king heard about this army, he has been weak with fear; he twists and turns in pain like a woman giving birth.

Jeremiah 49:22

An enemy will swoop down to attack you, like an eagle spreading its wings and circling over Bozrah. Your warriors will be as fearful as women giving birth.

Isaiah 16:9

Now I mourn like Jazer for the vineyards of Sibmah. I shed tears for Heshbon and for Elealeh. There will be no more harvest celebrations

Isaiah 15:5

I pity Moab! Its people are running to Zoar and to Eglath-Shelishiyah. They cry on their way up to the town of Luhith; on the road to Horonaim they tell of disasters.

Deuteronomy 28:67

Each morning you will wake up to such terrible sights that you will say, “I wish it were night!” But at night you will be terrified and say, “I wish it were day!”

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth, she is in great pain. But after it is all over, she forgets the pain and is happy, because she has brought a child into the world.

Jeremiah 4:19

I can't stand the pain! My heart pounds, as I twist and turn in agony. I hear the signal trumpet and the battle cry of the enemy, and I cannot be silent.

Jeremiah 6:24

Then the people said, “Just hearing about them makes us tremble with fear, and we twist and turn in pain like a woman giving birth.”