John 16:21
"A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world."
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- Psalms 113:9
"He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 13:8
"And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 30:6
"Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?"
Read in chapter → - 1 Thessalonians 5:3
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 26:16
"LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 13:13
"The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children."
Read in chapter → - Micah 4:10
"Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies."
Read in chapter → - Revelation 12:2
"And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered."
Read in chapter → - Galatians 4:27
"For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband."
Read in chapter → - Luke 1:57
"Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son."
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