Jeremiah 4:31

Contemporary English Version 1995

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem, gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

Cross References

Lamentations 1:17

Zion reaches out her hands, but no one offers comfort. The Lord has turned the neighboring nations against Jacob's descendants. Jerusalem is merely a filthy rag to her neighbors.

Isaiah 1:15

“No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

Jeremiah 13:21

You once trusted them to help, but now I'll let them rule you. What do you say about that? You will be in pain like a woman 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.

1 Corinthians 9:16

I don't have any reason to brag about preaching the good news. Preaching is something God told me to do, and if I don't do it, I am doomed.

Matthew 21:5

“Announce to the people of Jerusalem: ‘Your king is coming to you! He is humble and rides on a donkey. He comes on the colt of a donkey.’ ”

Micah 7:1

I feel so empty inside— like someone starving for grapes or figs, after the vines and trees have all been picked clean.

Hosea 13:13

You are like a senseless child who refuses to be born at the proper time.

Lamentations 2:21

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

Lamentations 1:20

Won't you look and see how upset I am, our Lord? My stomach is in knots, and my heart is broken because I betrayed you. In the streets and at home, my people are slaughtered.

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 49:24

You people of Damascus have lost your courage, and in panic you turn to run, gripped by fear and pain.

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.

Jeremiah 48:41

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

Jeremiah 45:2

Then later, the Lord God of Israel told me to say to Baruch:

Jeremiah 30:6

Can men give birth? Then why do I see them looking so pale and clutching their stomachs like women in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

Those who live in the palace paneled with cedar will groan with pain like women giving birth.

Jeremiah 18:21

But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

Jeremiah 15:18

I am badly injured and in constant pain. Are you going to disappoint me, like a stream that goes dry in the heat of summer?

Jeremiah 14:18

In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”

Jeremiah 10:19

The people answered, “We are wounded and doomed to die. Why did we say we could stand the pain?

Jeremiah 6:2

Jerusalem is a lovely pasture,

Isaiah 42:14

For a long time, I, the Lord, have held my temper; now I will cry out and groan like a woman giving birth.

Isaiah 21:3

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

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 6:5

Then I cried out, “I'm doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Psalm 120:5

But I must live as a foreigner among the people of Meshech and in the tents of Kedar.

Job 10:1

I am sick of life! And from my deep despair, I complain to you, my God.

Genesis 27:46

Rebekah later told Isaac, “Those Hittite wives of Esau are making my life miserable! If Jacob marries a Hittite woman, I'd be better off dead.”

Isaiah 26:17

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

Micah 4:9

Jerusalem, why are you crying? Don't you have a king? Have your advisors gone? Are you suffering like a woman in childbirth?

Micah 4:10

Keep on groaning with pain, you people of Jerusalem! If you escape from your city to the countryside, you will still be taken as prisoners to Babylonia. But later I will rescue you from your enemies.