Isaiah 13:8 uses the same labor pain imagery for terror, echoing the metaphor here for God's people.

Isaiah 21:3 also uses the labor pain metaphor to describe the prophet's anguish, similar to the collective pain here.

Isaiah 37:3 uses the identical birth-labor-without-strength image, paralleling the distress in 2 Kings 19:3.

Psalm 48:6 uses the same labor pain metaphor for the distress of enemies facing God's judgment.

Jeremiah 4:31 applies the same image to Daughter Zion's anguish during invasion.

Jeremiah 6:24 also describes national panic as pain like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 30:6 uses the same metaphor, asking why strong men grip their stomachs like women in labor.

John 16:21 contrasts Isaiah's pain-without-relief by showing labor pain leading to joy at birth.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 uses sudden labor pains to describe unexpected destruction on the complacent.

Genesis 3:16 originates labor pain as a curse; Isaiah borrows that common experience as a metaphor for distress.

2 Kings 19:3 echoes the same metaphor — a day of distress like a woman unable to deliver.

In Jeremiah 48:41, the same childbirth pain simile describes Moab's terror in judgment.

In Jeremiah 49:22, this simile applies to Edom's warriors—same image of panic as in Isaiah.

In Hosea 13:13, the 'pangs of childbirth' metaphor appears for Ephraim's failure to emerge at the right time.

In Micah 4:9, Zion's pain is likened to a woman in labor—same imagery for distress.