Jeremiah 30:6

Modern English Version

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?

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

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

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 29:22

Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale;

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when He appoints over you those you yourself had taught to be companions to you? Shall not sorrows take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in labor!

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 48:41

Kerioth has been captured, and the strongholds have been seized, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab in that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 49:22

Behold, he will mount up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings against Bozrah; and in that day the hearts of the mighty men of Edom will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become helpless; she has turned away to flee, and panic has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have seized her as a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:43

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

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.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck against one another.

Hosea 13:13

The pains of childbirth come for him. He is an unwise son, for he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.

Joel 2:6

Before them, peoples are tormented; every face turns pale.

Nahum 2:10

She is desolate, empty, and waste! Hearts melt away, and knees shake; pain is in all the loins, and all their faces grow pale.

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.