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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Lamentations 1:17
Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has issued a decree against Jacob that his neighbors should be his adversaries. Jerusalem has become something impure among them.
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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?
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Isaiah 13:8
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.
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Jeremiah 6:2
Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy Daughter Zion.
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Jeremiah 48:41
The towns have been captured, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
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Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
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Job 10:1
I am disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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1 Thessalonians 5 3
When they say,“ Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Jeremiah 30:6
Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
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Ezekiel 9:5-6
He spoke to the others in my hearing:“ Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.
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Isaiah 42:14
“ I have kept silent from ages past; I have been quiet and restrained myself. But now, I will groan like a woman in labor, gasping breathlessly.
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies.
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Jeremiah 10:19
Woe to me because of my brokenness— I am severely wounded! I exclaimed,“ This is my intense suffering, but I must bear it.”
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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 15:18
Why has my pain become unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You truly have become like a mirage to me— water that is not reliable.
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1 Corinthians 9 16
For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach— and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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Jeremiah 45:2
“ This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
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Micah 7:1
How sad for me! For I am like one who— when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest— finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.
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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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Ezekiel 23:46-47
“ This is what the Lord GOD says: Summon an assembly against them and consign them to terror and plunder.The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.
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Jeremiah 6:23-24
They grasp bow and javelin. They are cruel and show no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, lined up like men in battle formation against you, Daughter Zion.We have heard about it, and our hands have become weak. Distress has seized us— pain, like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 49:22
Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
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Genesis 27:46
So Rebekah said to Isaac,“ I’m sick of my life because of these Hethite girls. If Jacob marries someone from around here, like these Hethite girls, what good is my life?”
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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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Matthew 21:5
Tell Daughter Zion,“ See, your King is coming to you, gentle, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
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Lamentations 1:20
LORD, see how I am in distress. I am churning within; my heart is broken, for I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword takes the children; inside, there is death.
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Jeremiah 22:23
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out to the field, look— those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look— those ill from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him— pain, like a woman in labor.
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Psalms 120:5
What misery that I have stayed in Meshech, that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!
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Lamentations 2:21
Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.