Micah 4:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now 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.

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  • Jer 8:19 : 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and strange idols?
  • Isa 13:8 : 8 And 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.
  • Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore 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.
  • Isa 26:17 : 17 Like 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 4:21 : 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
  • Isa 3:1-7 : 1 For indeed, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the support and the staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the wise, and the elder, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skilled craftsman, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand: 7 In that day he shall swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; do not make me a ruler of the people.
  • Jer 22:23 : 23 O 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!
  • Jer 30:6-7 : 6 Ask 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? 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
  • Jer 50:43 : 43 The 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.
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel shall remain many days without a king, without a prince, without a sacrifice, without a pillar, without an ephod, and without household gods.
  • Hos 10:3 : 3 For now they shall say, 'We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do for us?'
  • Hos 13:10-11 : 10 I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes? 11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.

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  • Mic 4:10-11
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    85%

    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.

    11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • Jer 4:31
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    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.

  • Jer 22:23
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    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!

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What will you say when he shall punish you? For you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall sorrows not take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    78%

    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.

    18We 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.

  • Jer 30:5-6
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    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?

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    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?

  • Lam 1:16-17
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    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

    17Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob that his adversaries should be all around him: Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

  • Isa 21:3
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    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 8:19
    74%

    19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and strange idols?

  • Jer 30:15
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    15Why do you cry over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.

  • Mic 4:8
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    8And you, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to you it shall come, even the former dominion. The kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

  • Lam 2:12-13
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    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.

    13What can I witness for you? what can I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your ruin is vast like the sea: who can heal you?

  • Lam 1:1-4
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    1How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How has she become like a widow! She who was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become a tributary!

    2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

    3Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction and great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors have overtaken her between the straits.

    4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, do not labor to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:19-20
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    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.'

    20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

  • Isa 42:14
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    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.

  • Isa 3:26
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    26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

  • Jer 50:43
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    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.

  • Isa 66:7-9
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    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.

  • Lam 1:12
    72%

    12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

  • Jer 14:19
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    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!

  • Hos 13:13
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    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.

  • Isa 54:1
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    1Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.

  • Isa 47:5
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    5Sit in silence and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called the lady of kingdoms.

  • Lam 1:9
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    9Her filthiness is in her skirts; she does not remember her last end; therefore she came down astonishingly: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

  • Jer 15:5
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    5For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan you? or who shall turn aside to ask how you are?

  • Isa 47:1
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    1Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

  • Zech 2:7
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    7Deliver yourself, O Zion, who dwells with the daughter of Babylon.

  • Lam 2:20
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    20Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Isa 30:19
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    19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.

  • John 16:21
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    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.

  • Gal 4:27
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    27For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.'

  • Isa 49:21
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    21Then you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and moving to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?

  • Jer 49:4
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    4Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me?

  • Job 4:5
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    5But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

  • Nah 2:10
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    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.