Psalms 48:6

6 aTrembling took hold of them there,
anguish bas of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 13:6-9

6 cWail, for dthe day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty
The Hebrew words for  destruction and  almighty sound alike
it will come!
7Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart fwill melt.
8They will be dismayed:
gpangs and agony will seize them;
hthey will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, ithe day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and jto destroy its sinners from it.

Isaiah 21:3

3Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
kpangs 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

31For I heard la 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,
mstretching out her hands,
Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:24

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

Jeremiah 13:21

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

Jeremiah 22:23

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

Jeremiah 49:24

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

Jeremiah 50:43

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