John 16:21 Cross References - NSB

²¹ »A woman in tribulation has sorrow, because her hour to give birth has come. When she delivers the child, she remembers no more anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.

¹⁶ He said to the woman: »I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.«

⁶ Sarah said: »God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me.« ⁷ She added: »Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.«

²³ So she conceived and gave birth to a son. She said: »God has taken away my reproach.« ²⁴ She named him Joseph. She said: »May Jehovah give me another son.«

²⁶ Hannah said to him: »My lord. Do you remember me? I am the woman you saw standing here, praying to Jehovah. ²⁷ »I asked him for this child. He gave me what I asked of him.

⁹ He makes a childless woman a joyful mother. Praise Jehovah!

⁸ »They will be terrified! Pains and anguish will possess them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in amazement with their faces reddened with excitement (aflame).

¹⁶ Jehovah, they came to you in their distress. When you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer. ¹⁷ Like a woman with child and about to give birth struggles and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Jehovah. ¹⁸ We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth. We have not given birth to people of the world.

⁶ »Ask now and see: Can a man give birth to a child? Why, then, do I see every strong man holding his stomach in pain like a woman giving birth to a child? Why has every face turned pale? ⁷ »How terrible that day will be! There will be no other day like it. It will be a time of calamity for the descendants of Jacob, but they will be rescued from it.«

¹³ »They have the opportunity to live again, but they are not smart enough to take it. They are like a baby who is about to be born but will not come out of its mother's womb. ¹⁴ »I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

¹⁰ »Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth! For now you will go out of the city and dwell in the field. You will go to Babylon where you will be rescued. Jehovah will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

⁵⁷ Now it was time for Elisabeth to give birth. She gave birth to a son. ⁵⁸ Her neighbors and her relatives heard that Jehovah magnified his mercy towards her; and they rejoiced with her.

²⁷ It is written, »Rejoice, barren woman who does not give birth. Break forth and cry, you who do not labor; for there are more children of the desolate than of the one who has the husband.«

³ When they say, »Peace and security!« then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

² She, being with child, cried out in labor pains, ready to deliver. ³ Another sign appeared in heaven. It was a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. ⁴ His tail swept a third of the stars of heaven, and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered. He was ready to devour her child as soon as it was born. ⁵ She gave birth to a male-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod (scepter) of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.