Revelation 12:2

Good News Translation

She was soon to give birth, and the pains and suffering of childbirth made her cry out.

Cross References

Isaiah 26:17

You, Lord, have made us cry out, as a woman in labor cries out in pain.

Isaiah 53:11

After a life of suffering, he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the punishment of many and for his sake I will forgive them.

Isaiah 54:1

Jerusalem, you have been like a childless woman, but now you can sing and shout for joy. Now you will have more children than a woman whose husband never left her.

Isaiah 66:6

Listen! That loud noise in the city, that sound in the Temple, is the sound of the Lord punishing his enemies!

Micah 4:9

Why do you cry out so loudly? Why are you suffering like a woman in labor? Is it because you have no king, and your counselors are dead?

Micah 5:3

So the Lord will abandon his people to their enemies until the woman who is to give birth has her son. Then those Israelites who are in exile will be reunited with their own people.

Matthew 24:8

All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.

Galatians 4:19

My dear children! Once again, just like a mother in childbirth, I feel the same kind of pain for you until Christ's nature is formed in you.

Galatians 4:27

For the scripture says, “Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her.”

Revelation 12:4

With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born.