Isaiah 21:3

Tree of Life Version

Therefore my body is filled with pain. Pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bewildered by what I hear, terrified by what I see.

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

They saw, then they were astounded, they fled in terror.

Isaiah 13:8

They will be terrified; pain and anguish will take hold of them; they will writhe as a woman in labor; they will look aghast at one another— their faces aflame!

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab. Her fugitives are as far as Zoar as a three year old heifer, for by the ascent of Luhith they go up with weeping, for on the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of distress.

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a lyre, and my inward part for Kir-heres.

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah. I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh. For on your summer and your harvest the battle cry has fallen.

Isaiah 26:17

As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so we were before You, Adonai.

Jeremiah 4:19

My stomach, my stomach! I writhe in anguish! The pain of my heart! My heart is pounding within me! I cannot keep silent because I have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the battle-cry of war.

Jeremiah 48:41

The towns are captured, the strongholds seized. The hearts of Moab’s warriors in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 49:22

Behold, he will mount up and swoop down like an eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The hearts of Edom’s warriors in that day will be like a woman’s heart in her pangs.

Jeremiah 50:43

Babylon’s king heard news of them. His hands droop; anguish grabs him, agony like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard of their fame. Our hands hang limp; anguish has gripped us, pain like a woman in labor.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and my belly trembled. My lips quivered at the sound. Decay comes into my bones. I tremble where I stand, since I must wait quietly for a day of distress to come up against the people who will invade us.

John 16:21

“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!”—from the fear of your heart that you will fear and the sight of your eyes that you will see.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.