Micah 4:9 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁹ Why do you now cry aloud – have you no king? Has your ruler perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labour?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken you like a woman in labor?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

Common English Bible

⁹ Now why do you cry out so loudly? Isn’t the king in you? Or has your counselor perished, so that pain has seized you like that of a woman in labor?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Now, why have you come together in grief? Is there not a king in you, or has your counselor gone away? For sorrow has overtaken you, like the pain of giving birth.

Micah 4:9 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 13:8

Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labour. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.

Isaiah 21:3

At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labour; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.

Isaiah 26:17

As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, Lord.

Jeremiah 22:23

You who live in “Lebanon,” who are nestled in cedar buildings, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in labour!

Jeremiah 30:10

‘ “So do not be afraid, Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, Israel,” declares the Lord. “I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no-one will make him afraid.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the battle standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry as of a woman in labour, a groan as of one bearing her first child – the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, ‘Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.’

Jeremiah 48:41

Kerioth will be captured and the strongholds taken. In that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: ‘Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?’ ‘Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?’

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

Hosea 10:3

Then they will say, ‘We have no king because we did not revere the Lord. But even if we had a king, what could he do for us?’

Hosea 13:13

Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will live for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.

Micah 5:3

Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labour bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return to join the Israelites.

John 16:21

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.