Revelation 12:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.”
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“She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Revelation 12:2 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
- Isaiah 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Isaiah 66:7“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
- Micah 5:3Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
- John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
- Galatians 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
- Galatians 4:27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
- Revelation 12:4His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).