Isaiah 26:17

Modern English Version

Like a woman with child, who is in pain and cries out in her pangs when she draws near the time of her delivery, so have we been in Your sight, O  Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, and in pain you will bring forth children; your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, and pain, as of a woman in labor,

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman who travails; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore, my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold of me as the pangs of a woman who travails. I am so perplexed at the hearing of it; I am so dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 37:3

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy, for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see, can a male labor with child? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale?

Jeremiah 4:31

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

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard the report of it; our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pain as of a woman in labor.

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has pain, because her hour has come. But as soon as she delivers the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a child is born into the world.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

Revelation 12:2

She was with child and cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.