Isaiah 26:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pains, so we were before you,  Lord.

Cross References

John 16:21

When a woman is in labour, she has pain   because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child,   she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

Isaiah 13:8

They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labour. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore I am  filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labour. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labour and every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard about it, and our hands have become weak. Distress has seized us – pain, like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labour, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: ‘Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers! ’

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and cried out in labour and agony as she was about to give birth.

Isaiah 37:3

They said to him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: “Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace.  It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

Genesis 3:16

He said to the woman: I will intensify your labour pains; you will bear children with painful effort. Your desire  will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.