Isaiah 26:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

We haue coceiued, we haue borne in paine, as though we should haue brought forth winde: there was no helpe in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of the world fall.

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  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men by thine hand, O Lorde, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.
  • Isa 33:11 : 11 Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.
  • Isa 37:3 : 3 And they sayd vnto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke and blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring foorth.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie.
  • Hos 13:13 : 13 The sorowes of a trauailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwise sonne, els would he not stande still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children.
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We knowe that we are of God, and this whole world lieth in wickednesse.
  • Exod 5:22-23 : 22 Wherefore Moses returned to the Lorde, and saide, Lorde, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou thus sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speake in thy Name, he hath vexed this people, and yet thou hast not deliuered thy people.
  • Josh 7:7-9 : 7 And Ioshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou brought this people ouer Iorden, to deliuer vs into the hande of the Amorites, and to destroye vs? would God we had bene content to dwell on the other side Iorden. 8 Oh Lord, what shal I say, when Israel turne their backes before their enemies? 9 For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land shall heare of it, and shall compasse vs, and destroy our name out of the earth: and what wilt thou doe vnto thy mightie Name?
  • 1 Sam 11:13 : 13 But Saul said, There shall no man die this day: for to day the Lord hath saued Israel.
  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 And the people said vnto Saul, Shall Ionathan die, who hath so mightily deliuered Israel? God forbid. As the Lord liueth, there shall not one heare of his head fall to the ground: for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people deliuered Ionathan that he dyed not.
  • 2 Kgs 19:3 : 3 And they said vnto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke, & blasphemie: for the childre are come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring foorth.

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  • Isa 26:16-17
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    16Lorde, in trouble haue they visited thee: they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them.

    17Like as a woman with childe, that draweth neere to the trauaile, is in sorow, and cryeth in her paines, so haue we bene in thy sight, O Lord.

  • 24We haue heard their fame, and our handes waxe feeble sorrowe is come vpon vs, as the sorrowe of a woman in trauaile.

  • Isa 66:7-9
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    7Before she trauailed, she brought foorth: and before her paine came, she was deliuered of a man childe.

    8Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seene such things? shall ye earth be brought forth in one day? or shall a nation be borne at once? for assoone as Zion trauailed, she brought foorth her children.

    9Shall I cause to trauaile, and not bring forth? shall I cause to bring forth, and shall be baren, saith thy God?

  • Mic 4:9-10
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    9Nowe why doest thou crie out with lamentation? is there no King in thee? is thy counseller perished? for sorowe hath taken thee, as a woman in trauaile.

    10Sorow and mourne, O daughter Zion, like a woman in trauaile: for nowe shalt thou goe foorth of the citie, and dwel in the field, and shalt goe into Babel, but there shalt thou be deliuered: there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.

  • 3Therefore are my loynes filled with sorow: sorowes haue taken me as the sorowes of a woman that trauayleth: I was bowed downe when I heard it, and I was amased when I sawe it.

  • Jer 30:5-6
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    5For thus saith the Lorde, wee haue heard a terrible voyce, of feare and not of peace.

    6Demand now and beholde, if man trauayle with childe? wherefore doe I beholde euery man with his hands on his loynes as a woman in trauaile, and all faces are turned into a palenesse?

  • 31For I haue heard a noyse as of a woman trauailing, or as one labouring of her first child, euen the voyce of the daughter Zion that sigheth and stretcheth out her handes: woe is me nowe: for my soule fainteth because of the murtherers.

  • 22For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present.

  • 11We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

  • 21A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.

  • 23Thou that dwellest in Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the cedars, howe beautiful shalt thou be when sorowes come vpon thee, as the sorowe of a woman in trauaile?

  • 14I haue a long time holden my peace: I haue beene still and refrained my selfe: nowe will I crie like a trauailing woman: I will destroy and deuoure at once.

  • 13The sorowes of a trauailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwise sonne, els would he not stande still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children.

  • 2And she was with childe, and cried traueiling in birth, and was pained readie to be deliuered.

  • 20The haruest is past, the sommer is ended, and we are not holpen.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18And let them make haste, & let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares & our eye liddes gush out of water.

    19For a lamentable noyse is heard out of Zion, Howe are we destroyed, and vtterly confounded, for we haue forsaken the land, and our dwellings haue cast vs out.

  • 6Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

  • 15We looked for peace, but no good came, & for a time of health, and behold troubles.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18There is none to guide her among all the sonnes, whome she hath brought foorth: there is none that taketh her by the hand of all the sonnes that she hath brought vp.

    19These two thinges are come vnto thee: who will lament thee? desolation and destruction and famine, and the sworde: by whome shall I comfort thee?

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.

    18How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?

  • 19Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.

  • 8And they shalbe afraid: anguish and sorowe shal take them, and they shal haue paine, as a woman that trauaileth: euery one shall be amased at his neighbour, and their faces shalbe like flames of fire.

  • 25For our soule is beaten downe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the ground.

  • 9Shee that hath borne seuen, hath bene made weake: her heart hath failed: the sunne hath failed her, whiles it was day: she hath bene confounded, and ashamed, and the residue of them will I deliuer vnto the sworde before their enemies, sayth the Lord.

  • 18Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

  • 10She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.

  • 19And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

  • 4The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.

  • 5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.

  • 16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

  • 8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

  • 17Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.

  • Lam 2:11-12
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    11Mine eyes doe saile with teares: my bowels swell: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destructio of the daughter of my people, because the children and sucklings swoone in the streetes of the citie.

    12They haue sayd to their mothers, Where is bread and drinke? when they swooned as the wounded in the streetes of the citie, and whe they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome.

  • 43The King of Babel hath heard the report of them, & his hands waxed feeble: sorow came vpon him, euen sorowe as of a woman in trauaile.

  • 17Then wo shalbe to the that are with child, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

  • Isa 26:19-20
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    19Thy dead men shall liue: euen with my body shall they rise. Awake, and sing, ye that dwel in dust: for thy dewe is as the dew of herbes, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

    20Come, my people: enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doores after thee: hide thy selfe for a very litle while, vntill the indignation passe ouer.

  • 14Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.

  • 18How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, & the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.

  • 3For thus sayeth the Lorde concerning the sonnes, and concerning the daughters that are borne in this place, & concerning their mothers that beare them, & concerning their fathers, that beget them in this land,