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(Read Birth Part 1 First)
Who has ever seen or heard of anything as strange as this? Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Jerusalem's* birth pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will come forth.1 - Isaiah 66:8
Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it?" asks the LORD. "No! I would never keep this nation from being born," says your God. - Isaiah 66:9
I hear a great cry, like that of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is the cry of Jerusalem's people* gasping for breath, pleading for help, prostrate before their murderers.1 - Jeremiah 4:31
We have heard reports about the enemy, and we are weak with fright. Fear and pain have gripped us, like that of a woman about to give birth. - Jeremiah 6:24
How will you feel when the LORD sets your foreign allies over you as rulers? You will writhe in pain like a woman giving birth! - Jeremiah 13:21
Then I said, "What sadness is mine, my mother. Oh, that I had died at birth! I am hated everywhere I go. I am neither a lender who has threatened to foreclose nor a borrower who refuses to pay--yet they all curse me." - Jeremiah 15:10
Yet I curse the day I was born! May the day of my birth not be blessed. - Jeremiah 20:14
for he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had been my grave! - Jeremiah 20:17
It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace lined with lumber from the cedars of Lebanon, but soon you will cry and groan in anguish--anguish like that of a woman about to give birth. - Jeremiah 22:23
Now let me ask you a question: Do men give birth to babies? Then why do they stand there, ashen-faced, hands pressed against their sides like women about to give birth? - Jeremiah 30:6
For I will bring them from the north and from the distant corners of the earth. I will not forget the blind and lame, the expectant mothers and women about to give birth. A great company will return! - Jeremiah 31:8
"Her cities will fall; her strongholds will be seized. Even the mightiest warriors will be as frightened as a woman about to give birth. - Jeremiah 48:41
The enemy will come as swiftly as an eagle, and he will spread his wings against Bozrah. Even the mightiest warriors will be as frightened as a woman about to give birth. - Jeremiah 49:22
Damascus has become feeble, and all her people turn to flee. Fear, anguish, and pain have gripped her as they do a woman giving birth. - Jeremiah 49:24
The king of Babylon has received reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Fear and pain have gripped him, like that of a woman about to give birth. - Jeremiah 50:43
Should I return my sword to its sheath before I deal with you? No, I will destroy you in your own country, the land of your birth. - Ezekiel 21:30
The birds nested in its branches, and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth to their young. All the great nations of the world lived in its shadow. - Ezekiel 31:6
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New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers. |
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