Isaiah 26:18

American Standard Version (1901)

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

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  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in [this] life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
  • Isa 33:11 : 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
  • Isa 37:3 : 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Hos 13:13 : 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
  • Exod 5:22-23 : 22 And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
  • Josh 7:7-9 : 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan! 8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?
  • 1 Sam 11:13 : 13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehovah hath wrought deliverance in Israel.
  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
  • 2 Kgs 19:3 : 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 26:16-17
    2 verses
    88%

    16Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.

    17Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

  • Jer 6:24
    77%

    24We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Isa 66:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

    8Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. [

    9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut [the womb] ? saith thy God.

  • Mic 4:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

    10Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

  • Isa 21:3
    73%

    3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

  • Jer 30:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

    6Ask 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?

  • Jer 4:31
    72%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

  • Rom 8:22
    72%

    22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

  • Isa 59:11
    71%

    11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • John 16:21
    71%

    21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

  • Jer 22:23
    71%

    23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

  • Isa 42:14
    71%

    14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

    13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Rev 12:2
    70%

    2and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

  • Jer 8:20
    70%

    20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Ps 48:6
    70%

    6Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

  • Jer 8:15
    69%

    15We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up.

    19These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

    18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Jer 14:19
    69%

    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Isa 13:8
    69%

    8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them] ; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

    25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

  • Jer 15:9
    69%

    9She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.

  • Job 10:18
    69%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • Nah 2:10
    68%

    10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

  • Matt 24:19
    68%

    19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Isa 24:4
    68%

    4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

  • Lam 5:5
    68%

    5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • Job 3:16
    68%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • Lam 5:8
    68%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Lam 4:17
    68%

    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

  • Lam 2:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

    12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

  • Jer 50:43
    68%

    43The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Mark 13:17
    68%

    17But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Isa 26:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

    20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

  • Ps 7:14
    67%

    14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Joel 1:18
    67%

    18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Jer 16:3
    67%

    3For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land: