Isaiah 66:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Before she is in labor, she gives birth; Before her pangs come upon her, she delivers a male child.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:3

“Thus says Hezekiah: A day of distress and rebuke, a day of disgrace is this day! Children are due to come forth, but the strength to give birth is lacking.

Isaiah 54:1

Raise a glad cry, you barren one who never bore a child, break forth in jubilant song, you who have never been in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the Lord.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is our mother.