Isaiah 26:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of 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, [as] fire, 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 blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for 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 he should not stay long 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 the works thereof are evil.›
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
  • Exod 5:22-23 : 22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou [so] evil entreated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
  • Josh 7:7-9 : 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto 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 the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD 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 blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.

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    2 verses
    88%

    16LORD, 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 have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

  • Jer 6:24
    77%

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

  • Isa 66:7-9
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    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 the earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a nation be born 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 the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.

  • Mic 4:9-10
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    73%

    9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

    10Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go [even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

  • Isa 21:3
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    3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].

  • Jer 30:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5For thus saith the LORD; 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, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of 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 mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.

  • John 16:21
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    21‹A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for 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 gracious 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 like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

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

  • Rev 12:2
    70%

    2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

  • Jer 8:20
    70%

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

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    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 spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.

  • Ps 48:6
    70%

    6Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

  • Jer 8:15
    69%

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

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

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

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  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].

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  • Jer 14:19
    69%

    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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    69%

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    69%

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

  • Jer 15:9
    69%

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  • Job 10:18
    69%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that 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 much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

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    68%

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  • Isa 24:4
    68%

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

  • Lam 5:5
    68%

    5Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.

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    68%

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    68%

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    68%

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  • Lam 2:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

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    2 verses
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    3For thus saith the LORD 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;