Micah 4:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now, why are you shouting loudly? Is there no king with you? Has your counsellor perished, so that anguish grips you like a woman in labour?

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen #– #the cry of my dear people from a faraway land, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her? ’ Why have they angered me with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?

Hosea 10:3

In fact, they are now saying, ‘We have no king! For we do not fear the  Lord. What can a king do for us? ’

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,  without sacrifice  or sacred pillar,  and without ephod  or household idols.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,  , was captured in their traps. We had said about him, ‘We will live under his protection among the nations.’

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him – pain, like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 22:23

You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan  when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?

Isaiah 26:17

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

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.

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.

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.

Revelation 12:2

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

Jeremiah 48:41

The towns have   been captured, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.

Hosea 13:13

Labour pains come on him. He is not a wise son; when the time comes, he will not be born.  ,

Micah 5:3

Therefore, Israel will be abandoned  until the time when she who is in labour  has given birth; then the rest of the ruler’s brothers  will return to the people of Israel.

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! ’

Jeremiah 30:10

As for you, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid – this is the  Lord’s declaration – and do not be discouraged, Israel, for without fail I will save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return and have calm and quiet with no one to frighten him.