Isaiah 66:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she was delivered of a son.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:3

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in travail! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her that is married, says the Lord.

John 16:21

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

Galatians 4:26

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