Isaiah 26:17

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Lord, because of you we were in pain, like a woman giving birth, who struggles and cries out when it is time.

Cross References

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.

Isaiah 13:8

Everyone will be afraid. They will stare at each other with shock on their faces. Fear will grip them like the pains of a woman in childbirth.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will say, “We have peace and we are safe.” At that time destruction will come to them quickly, like the pains of a woman giving birth. And those people will not escape.

Isaiah 21:3

I saw those terrible things, and now I am afraid. My fear makes my stomach hurt like the pain of giving birth. What I hear frightens me. What I see makes me shake with fear.

Jeremiah 30:6

“Ask this question and consider it: Can a man have a baby? Of course not! Then why do I see every strong man holding his stomach like a woman having labor pains? Why is everyone’s face turning white like a dead man?

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the news about that army, and we are paralyzed with fear. We feel trapped by our troubles, in pain like a woman giving birth.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of daughter Zion. She is lifting her hands in prayer, saying, “Oh! I am about to faint! Murderers are all around me!”

Psalm 48:6

Fear grabbed them; they trembled like a woman giving birth.

Revelation 12:2

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

Isaiah 37:3

They said to Isaiah, “King Hezekiah has commanded that today will be a special day for sorrow and sadness. It will be a very sad day—as sad as when a baby should be born, but there is not enough strength for the birth.

Genesis 3:16

Then God said to the woman, “I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant. And when you give birth to children, you will have much pain. You will want your husband very much, but he will rule over you.”