Isaiah 21:3
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3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(A)pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Isaiah 13:8
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8 They will be dismayed:
(A)pangs and agony will seize them;
(B)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
Isaiah 26:17
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17 (A)Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
Psalm 48:6
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1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (A)sudden destruction will come upon them (B)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Micah 4:9-10
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9 Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in you?
(B)Has your counselor perished,
that (C)pain seized you like a woman in labor?
10 (D)Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for (E)now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you (F)shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
(G)there the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
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Jeremiah 48:41
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41 (A)the cities shall be taken
and the strongholds seized.
(B)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
like the heart of (C)a woman in her birth pains;
Isaiah 16:11
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11 Therefore (A)my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.
Habakkuk 3:16
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16 (A)I hear, and (B)my body trembles;
my lips quiver at the sound;
(C)rottenness enters into my bones;
my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet (D)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
to come upon people who invade us.
Daniel 5:5-6
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5 (A)Immediately (B)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (C)the hand as it wrote. 6 (D)Then the king's color changed, (E)and his thoughts alarmed him; (F)his limbs gave way, and (G)his knees knocked together.
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Jeremiah 50:43
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43 “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 49:22
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22 Behold, (A)one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against (B)Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart (C)of a woman in her birth pains.”
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Isaiah 16:9
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9 Therefore (A)I weep with (B)the weeping of Jazer
for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over (C)your summer fruit and your harvest
the shout has ceased.
Isaiah 15:5
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5 My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to (A)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (B)ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to (C)Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
Deuteronomy 28:67
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67 (A)In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and (B)the sights that your eyes shall see.
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