Micah 4:9

Easy To Read Version

Now, why are you crying so loud?\par Is your king gone?\par Have you lost your leader?\par You are suffering like a woman\par that is giving birth.\par

Cross References

Isaiah 13:8

Every person will be afraid. Their fear will cause their stomachs to hurt like a woman giving birth to a baby. Their faces will become red like fire. The people will be amazed because this look of fear will be on all their neighbors’ faces.

Isaiah 21:3

I saw those terrible things, and now I am scared. My stomach hurts because of my fear. That pain is like the pain of giving birth. The things I hear make me very afraid. The things I see make me shake with fear.

Isaiah 26:17

Lord, when we are not with you,\par we are like a woman\par giving birth to a baby.\par She cries with birth pains.\par

Jeremiah 22:23

King, you live high on the mountain\par in your house made from cedar wood.\par It is almost like you live in Lebanon\par where that wood came from.\par \{You think you are safe,\par high on the mountain in your big house.\}\par But you will really groan\par when your punishment comes.\par You will hurt like a woman\par giving birth to a baby.”\par

Jeremiah 30:10

“So, Jacob {\cf2\super [237]} my servant, don’t be afraid!”\par This message is from the Lord.\par “Israel, don’t be afraid.\par I will save you from that faraway place.\par You are captives {\cf2\super [238]} in that faraway land,\par But I will save your descendants. {\cf2\super [239]} \par \{I will bring them back\} from that land.\par Jacob will have peace again.\par People will not bother Jacob.\par There will be no enemy to scare my people.\par

Jeremiah 4:21

Lord, how long must I see the war flags?\par How long must I hear the war trumpets?\par

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman having a baby.\par It is a scream like a woman\par that is having her first baby.\par It is the cry of the Daughter of Zion. {\cf2\super [32]} \par She is lifting her hands in prayer, saying,\par “Oh! I am about to faint!\par Murderers are all around me!”\par

Jeremiah 48:41

The towns of Moab will be captured.\par The strong hiding places will be defeated.\par At that time, Moab’s soldiers will be scared,\par like a woman that is having a baby.\par

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon\par heard about those armies.\par And he became very scared.\par He is so afraid,\par his hands will not move.\par His fear makes his stomach hurt\par like a woman having a baby.”\par

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to my people.\par Everywhere in this country\par people are crying for help.\par They say,\par “Is the Lord still at Zion {\cf2\super [74]} ?\par Is Zion’s King still there?”\par

Lamentations 4:20

The king was very important to us.\par He was like the breath we breathe.\par But the king was trapped by them.\par The king was chosen by the Lord himself.\par We had said about the king,\par “We will live in his shadow.\par He protects us from the nations.”\par

Hosea 10:3

Now the Israelites say, “We have no king. We don’t honor the Lord! And his king can’t do anything to us!”

Hosea 13:13

\{His punishment\} will be like the pain a woman feels giving birth.\par He will not be a wise son.\par The time will come for his birth,\par and he will not survive.\par

Hosea 3:4

In the same way, the people of Israel will continue many days without a king or a leader. They will be without a sacrifice or a memorial stone. {\cf2\super [29]} They will be without an ephod {\cf2\super [30]} or a household god.

Micah 5:3

So the Lord {\cf2\super [61]} will give up his people\par until the woman gives birth to her child,\par \{the promised king\}.\par Then the rest of his brothers\par will come back to the people of Israel.\par

John 16:21

When a woman gives birth to a baby, she has pain, because her time has come. But when her baby is born, she forgets the pain. She forgets because she is so happy that a child has been born into the world.

Revelation 12:2

The woman was pregnant. She cried out with pain because she was about to give birth.