To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.
And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.
Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.
And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.
Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.
And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.
Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.
Then he said to me, Come here to my side, and put me to death, for the pain of death has me in its grip but my life is still strong in me.
And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.
And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.
And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.
And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the holy One.
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.
Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.
The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.
For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.
Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.
My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.
Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.
God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.
For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.
My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.
When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.
As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.
My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?
But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.
When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.
My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.
A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?
I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?
Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.
You said, sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.
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