Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Parallel translations
- KJV Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- BSB Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
- NKJV Fear took hold of them there, And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
- NASB Panic seized them there, Anguish, as that of a woman in childbirth.
- NLT They were gripped with terror and writhed in pain like a woman in labor.
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- Isa 13:6–8Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Hos 13:13The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.
- Jer 30:6–7Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?
- Dan 5:6Then 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.
- Exod 15:15–16Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
- Isa 21:3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
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