Revelation 12:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth.

Cross References

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;

Isaiah 53:11

Out of his anguish he shall see; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 54:1

Shout for joy, O barren one who has borne no children; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman will be more than the children of the one who is married, says the Lord.

Isaiah 66:6

Listen, a roar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord, dealing retribution to his enemies!

Micah 4:9

Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pangs have seized you like a woman in labor?

Micah 5:3

Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has brought forth; then the rest of his kindred shall return to the people of Israel.

Matthew 24:8

all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

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.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, “Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children, burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs, for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than the children of the one who is married.”

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to deliver a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.