Jeremiah 30:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

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  • Jer 4:31 : 31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
  • Joel 2:6 : 6 At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
  • Hos 13:13 : 13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
  • Jer 6:24 : 24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
  • Ps 48:6 : 6 Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.
  • Isa 21:3 : 3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.
  • Jer 22:23 : 23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
  • Jer 49:24 : 24 Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.
  • Jer 50:43 : 43 The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
  • Dan 5:6 : 6 Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.
  • Isa 29:22 : 22 For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.
  • Isa 13:6-9 : 6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. 7 For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; 8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames. 9 See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
  • Mic 4:9-9 : 9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth: 10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.
  • John 16:21-22 : 21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world. 22 So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
  • Jer 13:21 : 21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

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  • Jer 30:5
    81%

    5This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

  • Jer 6:24
    79%

    24The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Isa 21:3
    79%

    3For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

  • Jer 30:7
    79%

    7Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

  • Isa 13:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

    8Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • Isa 26:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

    18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

  • Mic 4:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

    10Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

  • Jer 4:31
    76%

    31A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

  • Ps 48:6
    75%

    6Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

  • Jer 50:43
    75%

    43The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Nah 2:10
    75%

    10Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

  • Ezek 21:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.

    7And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

  • Joel 2:6
    74%

    6At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.

  • Ezek 7:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

    18And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

  • Jer 22:23
    73%

    23O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

  • Isa 66:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.

    8When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

    9Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

  • Isa 32:11
    72%

    11Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

  • Lam 2:20
    72%

    20Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Lam 1:17
    71%

    17Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 13:21
    71%

    21What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

  • Jer 9:20
    70%

    20But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

  • Jer 15:9
    70%

    9The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

  • Hos 13:13
    70%

    13The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Deut 28:56
    70%

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • Matt 24:19
    70%

    19But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

  • Isa 42:14
    70%

    14I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

  • Mark 13:17
    70%

    17And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

  • John 16:21
    70%

    21When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

  • Isa 51:19
    70%

    19These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Jer 9:18
    70%

    18Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

  • Rev 12:2
    69%

    2And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

  • Lam 2:11
    69%

    11My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

  • Lam 1:12
    69%

    12Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

  • Luke 21:23
    69%

    23It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

  • Jer 48:41
    69%

    41Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

  • Jer 31:22
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    22How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Jer 49:24
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    24Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • Amos 5:16
    69%

    16So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

  • Ezek 27:35
    69%

    35All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

  • Jer 16:3
    69%

    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land: