Jeremiah 30:6

The Scriptures 1998

‘Ask now, and see if a man is giving birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labour, and all faces turned pale?

Cross References

Nahum 2:10

She is empty, even emptiness and waste! And the heart has melted, and the knees have knocked together, and much pain is in all loins, and all their faces have become flushed.

Joel 2:6

Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces become flushed.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, “Woe to me, for my being faints because of murderers!”

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labour. I was distressed when I heard it; I was troubled when I saw it.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.

Hosea 13:13

“Pains of a woman in labour shall come upon him. He is not a wise son, for it is not the time that he should delay at the breaking forth of children.

Jeremiah 22:23

“You who dwell in Leḇ

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it, our hands grow weak. Distress has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labour.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in labour,

Daniel 5:6

Then the sovereign’s colour changed, and his thoughts alarmed him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

Jeremiah 50:43

“The sovereign of Baḇ

Jeremiah 49:24

“Damascus has become feeble, she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her. Distress and pain have taken hold of her like a woman in labour.

Isaiah 29:22

Therefore thus said יהוה, who ransomed Aḇ

Jeremiah 13:21

What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 48:41

“Qeriyoth shall be captured, and the strongholds seized. And the heart of the mighty men in Mo’aḇ

Jeremiah 49:22

See, like an eagle he flies up, and spreads his wings over Botsrah. And the heart of the mighty men of Eḏ