Isaiah 26:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

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  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men who are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure; they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babies.
  • Isa 33:11 : 11 You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire, will devour you.
  • Isa 37:3 : 3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
  • Hos 13:13 : 13 The sorrows of a laboring 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 it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
  • Exod 5:22-23 : 22 And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why is it that you have sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have you delivered your people at all.
  • Josh 7:7-9 : 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you 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 of Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies? 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
  • 1 Sam 11:13 : 13 And Saul said, "There shall not a man be put to death this day, for today the LORD has brought salvation to Israel."
  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 But the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has brought this great deliverance in Israel? Far be it! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today." So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
  • 2 Kgs 19:3 : 3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring them forth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 26:16-17
    2 verses
    88%

    16LORD, in trouble they have visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

    17Like a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

  • Jer 6:24
    77%

    24We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

  • Isa 66:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7Before she travailed, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a male child.

    8Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.

    9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.

  • Mic 4:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like a woman in labor.

    10Be in pain and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon; there you shall be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

  • Isa 21:3
    73%

    3Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.

  • Jer 30:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

    6Ask now, and see whether a man is in labor with a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale?

  • Jer 4:31
    72%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads 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 groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

  • Isa 59:11
    71%

    11We all roar like bears, and mourn deeply like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

  • John 16:21
    71%

    21A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come: but as soon as she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a man has been born into the world.

  • Jer 22:23
    71%

    23O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in labor!

  • Isa 42:14
    71%

    14I have held my peace a long time; I have been still, and restrained myself: now will I cry like a woman in labor; I will destroy and devour at once.

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

    13The sorrows of a laboring 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 was with child, and she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

  • Jer 8:20
    70%

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

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    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 ruined! 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 labor.

  • 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%

    18There is none to guide her among all the sons she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand of all the sons she has raised.

    19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

    18Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Jer 14:19
    69%

    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

  • Isa 13:8
    69%

    8And they will be afraid: pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in labor: they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

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

  • Jer 15:9
    69%

    9She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun has gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the rest of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

  • Job 10:18
    69%

    18Why then have You 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 melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.

  • Matt 24:19
    68%

    19But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!

  • Isa 24:4
    68%

    4The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the proud people of the earth do languish.

  • Lam 5:5
    68%

    5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

  • Job 3:16
    68%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • Lam 5:8
    68%

    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

  • Lam 4:17
    68%

    17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

  • Lam 2:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers' bosom.

  • Jer 50:43
    68%

    43The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands grew feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in labor.

  • Mark 13:17
    68%

    17But woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days!

  • Isa 26:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19Your dead men shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

    20Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

  • Ps 7:14
    67%

    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Joel 1:18
    67%

    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Jer 16:3
    67%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land: