Jeremiah 4:31 Cross References

Jeremiah 4:31

31: I hear a great cry, like that of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is the cry of Jerusalem's people gasping for breath, pleading for help, prostrate before their murderers.

Isaiah 1:15

  1. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

Lamentations 1:17

  1. Jerusalem pleads for help, but no one comforts her. Regarding his people, the LORD has said, "Let their neighbors be their enemies! Let them be thrown away like a filthy rag!"

Jeremiah 13:21

  1. How will you feel when the LORD sets your foreign allies over you as rulers? You will writhe in pain like a woman giving birth!

Jeremiah 49:24

  1. Damascus has become feeble, and all her people turn to flee. Fear, anguish, and pain have gripped her as they do a woman giving birth.

Jeremiah 50:43

  1. The king of Babylon has received reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Fear and pain have gripped him, like that of a woman about to give birth.

Jeremiah 6:23

  1. They are fully armed for slaughter. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward, the noise of their army is like a roaring sea. They are marching in battle formation to destroy you, Jerusalem. "
  2. We have heard reports about the enemy, and we are weak with fright. Fear and pain have gripped us, like that of a woman about to give birth.

Jeremiah 49:22

  1. The enemy will come as swiftly as an eagle, and he will spread his wings against Bozrah. Even the mightiest warriors will be as frightened as a woman about to give birth.

1 Corinthians 9:16

  1. For preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn't do it!

Genesis 27:46

  1. Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm sick and tired of these local Hittite women. I'd rather die than see Jacob marry one of them."

Hosea 13:13

  1. The people have been offered new birth, but they are like a child who resists being born. How stubborn they are! How foolish!

Isaiah 42:14

  1. He will say, "I have long been silent; yes, I have restrained myself. But now I will give full vent to my fury; I will gasp and pant like a woman giving birth.

Ezekiel 23:46

  1. "Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring an army against them and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered.
  2. For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes.

Micah 7:1

  1. What misery is mine! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat. Not a cluster of grapes or a single fig can be found to satisfy my hunger.

Jeremiah 14:18

  1. If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, there I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they do not know what they are doing.'"

Isaiah 21:3

  1. My stomach aches and burns with pain. Sharp pangs of horror are upon me, like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I grow faint when I hear what God is planning; I am blinded with dismay.

Isaiah 6:5

  1. Then I said, "My destruction is sealed, for I am a sinful man and a member of a sinful race. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty!"

Jeremiah 15:18

  1. Why then does my suffering continue? Why is my wound so incurable? Your help seems as uncertain as a seasonal brook. It is like a spring that has gone dry."

Ezekiel 9:5

  1. Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity!
  2. Kill them all--old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders.

Jeremiah 6:2

  1. O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter--but I will destroy you!

Jeremiah 10:19

  1. My wound is desperate, and my grief is great. My sickness is incurable, but I must bear it.

Jeremiah 18:21

  1. So let their children starve! Let the sword pour out their blood! Let their wives become widows without any children! Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle!

1 Thessalonians 5:3

  1. When people are saying, "All is well; everything is peaceful and secure," then disaster will fall upon them as suddenly as a woman's birth pains begin when her child is about to be born. And there will be no escape.

Lamentations 1:20

  1. "LORD, see my anguish! My heart is broken and my soul despairs, for I have rebelled against you. In the streets the sword kills, and at home there is only death.

Job 10:1

  1. "I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Lamentations 2:21

  1. "See them lying in the streets--young and old, boys and girls, killed by the swords of the enemy. You have killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without mercy.

Isaiah 13:8

  1. and are afraid. Fear grips them with terrible pangs, like those of a woman about to give birth. They look helplessly at one another as the flames of the burning city reflect on their faces.

Jeremiah 30:6

  1. Now let me ask you a question: Do men give birth to babies? Then why do they stand there, ashen-faced, hands pressed against their sides like women about to give birth?

Matthew 21:5

  1. "Tell the people of Israel, 'Look, your King is coming to you. He is humble, riding on a donkey--even on a donkey's colt.'"

Jeremiah 48:41

  1. "Her cities will fall; her strongholds will be seized. Even the mightiest warriors will be as frightened as a woman about to give birth.

Jeremiah 45:2

  1. "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

Psalms 120:5

  1. How I suffer among these scoundrels of Meshech! It pains me to live with these people from Kedar!

Jeremiah 22:23

  1. It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace lined with lumber from the cedars of Lebanon, but soon you will cry and groan in anguish--anguish like that of a woman about to give birth.
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