BIRTH

Passages on this topic · 8

• Genesis 3:16

  To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

• Psalms 48:6

  Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

• Isaiah 13:8

  They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

• Isaiah 21:3

  Therefore 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.

• Jeremiah 4:31

  For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

• Jeremiah 6:24

  We have heard its report; our hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

• Jeremiah 30:6

  Ask 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?

• Jeremiah 31:8

  Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.