Isaiah 66:7

New International Reader's Version

“Zion is like a woman who has a baby before she goes into labor. She has a son even before her labor pains begin.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:3

They told Isaiah, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today we’re in great trouble. The Lord is warning us. He’s bringing shame on us. Sometimes babies come to the moment when they should be born. But their mothers aren’t strong enough to give birth to them. Today we are like those mothers. We aren’t strong enough to save ourselves.

Isaiah 54:1

“Jerusalem, sing! You are now like a woman who never had a child. Burst into song! Shout for joy! You who have never had labor pains, you are now all alone. But you will have more children than a woman who still has a husband,” says the Lord.

John 16:21

A woman giving birth to a baby has pain. That’s because her time to give birth has come. But when her baby is born, she forgets the pain. She forgets because she is so happy that a baby has been born into the world.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem that is above is free. She is our mother.