Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 4:6-9
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Point the way to Zion! Run for safety! Don't delay! The LORD is bringing disaster and great destruction from the north.
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Like a lion coming from its hiding place, a destroyer of nations has set out. He is coming to destroy Judah. The cities of Judah will be left in ruins, and no one will live in them.
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So put on sackcloth, and weep and wail because the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from Judah.
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The LORD said, "On that day kings and officials will lose their courage; priests will be shocked and prophets will be astonished."
Jeremiah 4:19-21
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The pain! I can't bear the pain! My heart! My heart is beating wildly! I can't keep quiet; I hear the trumpets and the shouts of battle.
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One disaster follows another; the whole country is left in ruins. Suddenly our tents are destroyed; their curtains are torn to pieces.
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How long must I see the battle raging and hear the blasts of trumpets?
Isaiah 28:19
It will strike you again and again, morning after morning. You will have to bear it day and night. Each new message from God will bring new terror!
Ezekiel 21:6
"Mortal man, groan as if your heart is breaking with despair. Groan in sorrow where everyone can watch you.
Ezekiel 21:7
When they ask you why you are groaning, tell them it is because of the news that is coming. When it comes, their hearts will be filled with fear, their hands will hang limp, their courage will fail, and their knees will tremble. The time has come; it is here." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Habakkuk 3:16
I hear all this, and I tremble; my lips quiver with fear. My body goes limp, and my feet stumble beneath me. I will quietly wait for the time to come when God will punish those who attack us.
anguish
Jeremiah 4:31
I heard a cry, like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman bearing her first child. It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath, stretching out her hand and saying, "I am doomed! They are coming to kill me!"
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.
Jeremiah 22:23
You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon; but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you, pains like those of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 30:6
Now stop and think! Can a man give birth to a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why is everyone so pale?
Jeremiah 49:24
The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylonia hears the news, and his hands hang limp. He is seized by anguish, by pain like a woman in labor.
Psalm 48:6
There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,
Proverbs 1:27
when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery.
Proverbs 1:28
Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.
Isaiah 21:3
What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain, pain like that of a woman in labor.
Micah 4:9
Why do you cry out so loudly? Why are you suffering like a woman in labor? Is it because you have no king, and your counselors are dead?
Micah 4:10
Twist and groan, people of Jerusalem, like a woman giving birth, for now you will have to leave the city and live in the open country. You will have to go to Babylon, but there the LORD will save you from your enemies.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.