Isaiah 13:8

8They will be dismayed:
apangs and agony will seize them;
bthey will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.

Isaiah 21:3

3Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
cpangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 26:17-18

17 dLike 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;
18 ewe were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

Jeremiah 4:31

31For I heard fa 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,
gstretching out her hands,
β€œWoe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:24

24We have heard the report of it;
hour hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
ipain as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 30:6

6Ask now, and see,
can a man bear a child?
jWhy then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach klike a woman in labor?
lWhy has every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 49:22

22Behold, mone shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against nBozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart oof a woman in her birth pains.”

Jeremiah 49:24

24 pDamascus has become feeble, qshe turned to flee,
and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as rof a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:43

43 β€œThe king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 51:30

30The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;
they remain in their strongholds;
their strength has failed;
sthey have become women;
ther dwellings are on fire;
uher bars are broken.
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