Isaiah 26:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

Then the LORD said to the woman, “You will suffer terribly when you give birth. But you will still desire your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Psalm 48:6

They trembled all over like women 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 37:3

Isaiah, these are difficult and disgraceful times. Our nation is like a woman too weak to give birth, when it's time for her baby to be born.

Jeremiah 30:6

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

Jeremiah 4:31

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

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.”

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.

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.

Revelation 12:2

She was about to give birth, and she was crying because of the great pain.