Psalms 48:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

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.
Exod 15:15-16 : 15 Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. 16 Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.
Isa 13:6-8 : 6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: 8 and 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.
Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore 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 30:6-7 : 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? 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Dan 5:6 : 6 Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Isa 13:7-8
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7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
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 48:5
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5They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away.
Jer 6:24
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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 21:3-4
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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.
4My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Jer 50:43
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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.
Jer 30:5-6
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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?
Ps 48:7
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7With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
Isa 26:17-18
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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.
18We 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.
Ezek 27:35
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35All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
Jer 49:23-24
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23Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
24Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
Ps 55:4-5
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4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
Jer 48:41
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41Kerioth 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.
Exod 15:14-16
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14The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
15Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
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Rev 12:2
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2and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
Job 4:14
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14Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.
Nah 2:10
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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.
Isa 41:5
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5The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
Job 21:6
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6Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
Lam 3:47
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47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Mic 4:9
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Jer 13:21
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21What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?
Ezek 7:17
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17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Joel 2:6
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6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
John 16:21
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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.
Ezek 26:18
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Isa 42:14
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Isa 66:7
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7Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.
Isa 8:22
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5But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Prov 1:27
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1 Thess 5:3
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3{G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Isa 19:16
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16In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.
Jer 22:23
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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 23:5
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5When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
Ezek 27:30
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30and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
Ezek 26:16
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16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Jonah 1:13
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13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
Jer 46:5
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5Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.
Isa 32:11
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11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins.
Ps 105:38
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38Egypt was glad when they departed; For the fear of them had fallen upon them.