Isaiah 13:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and they will be terrified. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:26

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded; they have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops that is scorched before the east wind.

Psalm 48:7

as when an east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.

Isaiah 26:17

Like a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we because of you, O Lord;

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you have trained to be your allies? Will not pangs seize you like those of a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now and see: Can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Jeremiah 46:5

Why do I see them terrified? They have fallen back; their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste. They do not look back— terror is all around! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:41

the towns shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day, shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 49:22

Look, he shall mount up and swoop down like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom on that day shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become feeble; she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and pangs seize her, as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon heard news of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her buildings are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Ezekiel 20:47

say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.

Hosea 13:13

The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the proper time he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.

Nahum 2:10

Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble; all loins quake; all faces grow pale!

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!