Isaiah 21:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish,
pangs have seized me like those of a woman in labor;
I am too bewildered to hear,
too dismayed to look.(A)
Psalm 48:7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Trembling seized them there,
anguish, like a woman’s labor,(A)
Micah 4:9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 Now why do you cry out so?
Are you without a king?
Or has your adviser perished,
That you are seized with pains
like a woman in labor?
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