Isaiah 26:17
Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.
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Isaiah 26:17
Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.
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Genesis 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Genesis 35:17
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”
Genesis 35:18
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
1 Samuel 4:19
His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
1 Samuel 4:20
About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.
1 Samuel 4:21
She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Matthew 2:18
“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”
1 Timothy 2:15
but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with sobriety.
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Exodus 5:23
For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Hebrews 10:37
“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.
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Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
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Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
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Psalms 48:5
They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Daniel 5:5
In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Daniel 5:6
Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
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Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
Ezekiel 19:10
“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
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Isaiah 23:4
Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”
Isaiah 23:5
When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
Isaiah 45:10
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’ ”
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Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
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Isaiah 51:18
There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons whom she has brought up.
Isaiah 51:19
These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
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Song of Solomon 8:5
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
Isaiah 26:1
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 54:1
“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 66:6
A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
Jeremiah 30:7
Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it! It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.
Jeremiah 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
Revelation 12:3
Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
Revelation 12:4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
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Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!
Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.
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Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Psalms 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
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Joel 2:6
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
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Micah 4:11
Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
Micah 4:12
But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
Micah 4:13
Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze. You will beat in pieces many peoples. I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
Micah 5:1
Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
John 16:22
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
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Zechariah 9:5
Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
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Malachi 1:9
“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
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Mark 13:8
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.
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Acts 16:29
He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
Acts 16:30
brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 16:31
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:32
They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
Acts 16:33
He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Acts 16:34
He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:8
don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
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