Isaiah 66:7

The Scriptures 2009

“Before she laboured, she gave birth; before a pain came to her, she was delivered of a male child.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:3

And they said to him, “Thus said Ḥizqiyahu, ‘This day is a day of distress and rebuke and scorn, for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring forth.

Isaiah 54:1

“Sing, O barren one, you who did not bear! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the deserted one are more than the children of the married woman,” said יהוה.

John 16:21

“The woman has grief when she is in labour, because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the affliction, for joy that a man was born into the world.

Galatians 4:26

But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.