Jeremiah 48:41

Tree of Life Version

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.

Cross References

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 21:3

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.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see whether a man can give birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman giving birth? Why have all faces turned pale?

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry like one in labor, the anguish of one giving birth to her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands saying, “Oy , now to me! For my soul faints before murderers.”

Jeremiah 4:9

“It will happen in that day” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “that the king’s heart will fail, as will the heart of the princes. The kohanim will be appalled, and the prophets will be stunned.”

Jeremiah 48:24

on Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.

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 49:24

Damascus has become feeble. She turns away to flee, panic grips her, anguish and pangs have seized her, like a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 50:37

A sword on their horses, their chariots, on all the mixed people within her, so they will become like women! A sword on her treasures— so they may be plundered.

Jeremiah 50:43

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

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors ceased fighting. They stay in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted. They have become like women. Her dwellings are set ablaze, her gate-bars are broken.

Jeremiah 6:24

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

Amos 2:2

So I will send fire upon Moab— it will devour Kerioth’s citadels. Moab will die in an uproar, with a shout of alarm and the sound of the shofar.

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.