Isa.21.3

Isaiah 21:3

KJV

Therefore 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.

Babylon Is Fallen

Cross References

John 16:21

KJVJesus

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.

Grief Will Turn to Joy

Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Foretold

1 Thessalonians 5:3

KJV

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

The Day of the Lord

Psalm 48:6

KJV

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

Broken Bondage

Isaiah 13:8

KJV

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

The Burden against Babylon

Judgment on the Day of the LORD

Isaiah 16:11

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Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.

Moab’s Destruction

Isaiah 26:17

KJV

Like 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.

A Song of Salvation

Jeremiah 4:19

KJV

¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Lamentation for Judah

Jeremiah 6:24

KJV

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

An Invasion from the North

Jeremiah 48:41