Isaiah 66:7

Modern English Version

Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a son.

Cross References

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.

Isaiah 54:1

Sing, O barren, you who did not bear a child. Break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord.

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.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our mother.