Micah 4:9

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken hold of you as of a woman in birth labor.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:8

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in birth labor: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in birth labor: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 26:17

As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her birth pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, who make your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in birth labor!

Jeremiah 30:10

Therefore fear not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your descendents from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be at rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in birth labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Jeremiah 48:41

Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her birth pangs.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands grew feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in birth labor.

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their sculptured images, and with strange vanities?

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Hosea 10:3

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then would a king do for us?

Hosea 13:13

The sorrows of a woman in birth labor shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not remain long in the opening of the womb during birth.

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall remain many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

Micah 5:3

Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who labors in birth has brought forth: then the remnant of his people shall return to the children of Israel.

John 16:21

A woman when she is in birth labor has sorrow, because her hour has come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Revelation 12:2

And she being with child cried out, laboring in birth, and in pain to be delivered.