Micah 4:9

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Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like a woman in labor?

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  • Jer 8:19 : 19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?
  • Isa 13:8 : 8 They will be terrified; pain and anguish will grip them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at each other in dismay, their faces aflame.
  • Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore my body is filled with trembling; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over by what I heard; I am dismayed by what I saw.
  • Isa 26:17 : 17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.
  • Jer 4:21 : 21 How long must I see the banner and hear the sound of the trumpet?
  • Isa 3:1-7 : 1 See now, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is removing from Jerusalem and Judah support and supply, both bread and water. 2 The mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder. 3 The captain of fifty and the honored man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter. 4 I will make boys their leaders, and immature children will rule over them. 5 The people will oppress one another—man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will act arrogantly toward the elderly, and the dishonored against the honored. 6 A man will seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, 'You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this ruin!' 7 But he will say in that day, ‘I will not be a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not appoint me as the ruler of the people.’
  • Jer 22:23 : 23 You who live in Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, anguish like that of a woman in labor!
  • Jer 30:6-7 : 6 Ask now and see: Can a man give birth? Why then do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, and every face turned pale? 7 Alas! That day is great, so that there is none like it. It is a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved from it.
  • Jer 50:43 : 43 The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish grips him, pain like that of a woman in labor.
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel will live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
  • Hos 10:3 : 3 Now they will say, 'We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And as for the king, what could he do for us?
  • Hos 13:10-11 : 10 Where now is your king to save you in all your cities? And where are your rulers, about whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes'? 11 I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mic 4:10-11
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    85%

    10Writhe in pain and groan, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city and camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

    11But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

  • Jer 4:31
    80%

    31I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'

  • Jer 22:23
    79%

    23You who live in Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, anguish like that of a woman in labor!

  • Jer 13:21
    79%

    21What will you say when He appoints leaders over you, those you taught to be rulers? Will not pain seize you like a woman in labor?

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    78%

    17As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.

    18We were pregnant, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and no one is born to inhabit the world.

  • Jer 30:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5This is what the LORD says: We have heard a sound of terror—a cry of fear, not peace.

    6Ask now and see: Can a man give birth? Why then do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, and every face turned pale?

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    77%

    18There is no one to guide her among all the sons she has borne, and no one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has raised.

    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • Lam 1:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16"Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 6:24
    75%

    24We have heard the report about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  • Isa 21:3
    75%

    3Therefore my body is filled with trembling; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over by what I heard; I am dismayed by what I saw.

  • Jer 8:19
    74%

    19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?

  • Jer 30:15
    74%

    15Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because of your great guilt and many sins, I have done these things to you.

  • Mic 4:8
    74%

    8As for you, Watchtower of the Flock, stronghold of Daughter Zion, the former dominion will come to you, the kingdom will return to Daughter Jerusalem.

  • Lam 2:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12They cry out to their mothers, 'Where is the bread and the wine?' as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, and as they breathe their last in their mothers’ arms.

    13What can I say on your behalf? To what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? Your wound is as vast as the sea—who can heal you?

  • Lam 1:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, now a slave.

    2Bitterly she weeps in the night, tears on her cheeks. There is no one to comfort her—all who loved her have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

    3Judah has gone into exile, suffering and hard service. She lives among the nations but finds no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places.

    4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

  • Isa 22:4
    74%

    4Therefore I said, 'Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of my people.'

  • Jer 9:19-20
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    74%

    19'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'

    20'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'

  • Isa 42:14
    74%

    14For a long time, I have kept silent; I have held my peace and restrained myself. But now, like a woman in labor, I will cry out; I will gasp and pant together.

  • Isa 3:26
    73%

    26The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • Jer 50:43
    73%

    43The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish grips him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  • Isa 66:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before the pain came, she delivered a son.

    8Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

    9'Shall I bring to the point of birth and not deliver?' says the Lord. 'Or shall I, who causes delivery, shut the womb?' says your God.

  • Lam 1:12
    72%

    12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

  • Jer 14:19
    72%

    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

  • Hos 13:13
    72%

    13The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Isa 54:1
    72%

    1Sing, O barren woman who has not given birth! Break forth into song and shout with joy, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman are more than the children of the married woman, says the Lord.

  • Isa 47:5
    72%

    5Sit silently and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you will no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.

  • Lam 1:9
    72%

    9Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

  • Jer 15:5
    72%

    5Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask how you are?

  • Isa 47:1
    72%

    1Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

  • Zech 2:7
    71%

    7Then behold, the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came to meet him.

  • Lam 2:20
    71%

    20Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Isa 30:19
    71%

    19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

  • John 16:21
    71%

    21When a woman is in labor, she has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

  • Gal 4:27
    71%

    27For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.'

  • Isa 49:21
    71%

    21Then you will say in your heart, 'Who bore me these children? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and rejected. Who raised these? I was left all alone—where have these come from?'

  • Jer 49:4
    71%

    4Why do you boast of your valleys, your abundant valley, O rebellious daughter? You trust in your treasures and say, 'Who will come against me?'

  • Job 4:5
    71%

    5But now it has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are troubled.

  • Nah 2:10
    71%

    10Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the abundance of all treasures.