Matthew 24:8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. (See NAS RSV)
Mark 13:8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains. (See NAS RSV)
Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. (ASV RSV)
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (See RSV)
Revelation 12:2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. (See RSV)
Exodus 15:14 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. (WEB JPS ASV RSV)
1 Samuel 25:31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid." (See RSV)
Job 21:17 How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger. (YLT)
Job 39:3 They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth. (YLT)
Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh. (See RSV)
Psalms 48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail. (JPS)
Psalms 73:4 For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound. (JPS ASV DBY RSV)
Psalms 116:3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow. (See RSV)
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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 26:17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail. (WEB ASV)
Jeremiah 13:21 What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee? Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? (JPS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 22:23 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her; anguish and pangs have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. (JPS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)
Daniel 10:16 and lo, as the manner of the sons of men, he is striking against my lips, and I open my mouth, and I speak, and say unto him who is standing over-against me: My lord, by the appearance turned have been my pangs against me, and I have retained no power. (YLT)
Hosea 13:13 The pangs of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is a son not wise; for at the time of the breaking forth of children, he was not there. (DBY YLT RSV)
Micah 4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)