He said to the woman, I will greatly increase your pain and your conception; you shall bear sons in sorrow, and your desire shall be toward your husband; and he shall rule over you.
and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain like one giving birth; they shall be amazed, a man to his neighbor; faces of flames shall be their faces.
Ask now and see whether a male is giving birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like one giving birth. and have turned all faces to paleness.
For I have heard a voice as of one weakened, the anguish as one bearing her first child, the voice of Zion’s daughter gasping and spreading her palms, saying, Woe is to me now, for my soul faints because of murderers!
Kerioth is captured, and the strongholds are seized. And the mighty men’s hearts in Moab shall be at that day like the heart of a woman being distressed.
Behold, he shall come up and fly like the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah. And at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman being distressed.
They shall take their tents and their flocks. They shall take their curtains, and all their vessels, and they shall lift up their camels, to themselves. And they shall cry to them, Terror is round about!
And I will cause Elam to be terrified before their enemies and before those seeking their life. And I will bring an evil thing on them, the burning of My anger, a statement of Jehovah. And I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
For nation will be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in many places. And there shall be famines and tumults. These things are the beginnings of birth-pangs.