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Isaiah 26:17 (Listen)

• Isaiah 25
• Isaiah 26
• Isaiah 27

17 xLike a pregnant woman

who writhes and cries out in her pangs

when she is near to giving birth,

so were we because of you, O Lord;

Jeremiah 4:31 (Listen)

• Jeremiah 3
• Jeremiah 4
• Jeremiah 5

31 For I heard wa cry as of a woman in labor,

anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,

the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,

xstretching out her hands,

“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:24 (Listen)

• Jeremiah 5
• Jeremiah 6
• Jeremiah 7

24 We have heard the report of it;

wour hands fall helpless;

anguish has taken hold of us,

xpain as of a woman in labor.

Micah 4:9-10 (Listen)

• Micah 3
• Micah 4
• Micah 5

9 Now why do you cry aloud?

bIs there no king in you?

cHas your counselor perished,

that dpain seized you like a woman in labor?

10 eWrithe and groan,1 O daughter of Zion,

like a woman in labor,

for fnow you shall go out from the city

and dwell in the open country;

you gshall go to Babylon.

There you shall be rescued;

hthere the Lord will redeem you

from the hand of your enemies.

John 16:21 (Listen)

• John 15
• John 16
• John 17

21 kWhen a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.