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Nahum 2:10
Desolation, decimation, devastation! Hearts melt, knees tremble, loins shake, every face grows pale!
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Joel 2:6
Nations writhe in horror before them; all faces turn pale.
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Jeremiah 4:31
I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers!
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Hosea 13:13
Labor pains come on him. He is not a wise son; when the time comes, he will not be born.
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Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard about it, and we are discouraged. Distress has seized us— pain like a woman in labor.
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Psalms 48:6
Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,
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Isaiah 21:3
Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.
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Jeremiah 22:23
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.
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1 Thessalonians 5 3
When they say,“ Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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John 16:21-22
When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.
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Isaiah 13:6-9
Wail! For the day of the Lord is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak, and every man’s heart will melt.They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.Look, the day of the Lord is coming— cruel, with rage and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners on it.
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Isaiah 29:22
Therefore, the Lord who redeemed Abraham says this about the house of Jacob: Jacob will no longer be ashamed and his face will no longer be pale.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands fall helpless. Distress has seized him— pain, like a woman in labor.
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Micah 4:9-10
Now, why are you shouting loudly? Is there no king with you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?Writhe and cry out, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the power of your enemies!
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Daniel 5:6
his face turned pale, and his thoughts so terrified him that his hip joints shook and his knees knocked together.
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Jeremiah 49:24
Damascus has become weak; she has turned to run; panic has gripped her. Distress and labor pains have seized her like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when He appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won’t labor pains seize you, as they do a woman in labor?