Psa 18:5, Isa 13:8, 21:3, Jer 4:31, 6:24, 13:21, 22:23, 30:6, 48:41, 49:24 | ESV | STEP | the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

a[See ver. 4 above]

r[See ver. 23 above]

t[See ver. 22 above]

Psalms 18:5

5 ^athe cords of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.

Isaiah 13:8

8 They will be dismayed:
^bpangs and agony will seize them;
^cthey 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;
^dpangs 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 ^ea 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,
^fstretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:24

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

Jeremiah 13:21

21 What will you say when they set as head over you
those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
ⁱWill not pangs take hold of you
like those of a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

23 O inhabitant of ^jLebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
^kpain as of a woman in labor!”

Jeremiah 30:6

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

Jeremiah 48:41

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

Jeremiah 49:24

24 ^rDamascus has become feeble, ^sshe turned to flee,
and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as ^tof a woman in labor.