Isa 13:8, 21:3, Jer 4:31, 6:24, 30:6, 48:41, 1Th 5:3 | ESV | STEP | They will be dismayed : pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor . They will look aghast at one another ; their faces will be aflame .

Isaiah 13:8

8 They 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

3 Therefore 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.

Jeremiah 4:31

31 For I heard ^da 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,
^estretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:24

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

Jeremiah 30:6

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

Jeremiah 48:41

41 ^kthe cities shall be taken
and the strongholds seized.
^lThe heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
like the heart of ^ma woman in her birth pains;

1 Thessalonians 5:3

3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then ⁿsudden destruction will come upon them ^oas labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.