Isaiah 66:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Before Zion was in labour, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

Cross References

Isaiah 54:1

‘Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married woman,’ says the Lord.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above  is free, and she is our mother.

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 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.