Jeremiah 30:6
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 30:6 explains the trembling as men in labor pains — the cross-reference completes the image directly.
In Jeremiah 6:24, the same metaphor of hands on loins and labor pains describes helplessness and anguish.
In Jeremiah 13:21, pangs like a woman in labor are used for distress over betrayal by former allies.
In Jeremiah 22:23, the same labor-pain imagery warns the complacent in Lebanon of coming judgment.
In Jeremiah 49:24, Damascus is seized by anguish and sorrows like a woman in labor, mirroring the same metaphor.
In Jeremiah 50:43, the king of Babylon experiences hands falling helpless and labor-pain anguish, echoing this verse.
Jeremiah 48:41 compares the heart of Moab's warriors to a woman in labor, the same metaphor for panic.
Jeremiah 49:22 likens Edom's warriors' hearts to a woman in labor, echoing the same childbirth image.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 uses labor pains to depict sudden destruction, reinforcing the theme of inescapable divine judgment.
In Psalm 48:6, trembling and anguish like a woman in labor describe the terror of enemy kings seeing Zion.
Nahum 2:10 combines 'anguish in loins' and 'faces grow pale,' matching Jeremiah's labor-pain and pallor imagery for divine destruction.
Micah 4:10 extends the labor metaphor to include exile and eventual redemption, adding deliverance after the anguish.
Micah 4:9 uses the same labor-pain metaphor to describe the anguish of Jerusalem, echoing Jeremiah's imagery of men in birth pangs.
Joel 2:6 uses the identical phrase 'all faces grow pale' to describe terror before God's judgment, directly paralleling Jeremiah.
In Hosea 13:13, childbirth pangs represent Israel's distress and failure to repent at the right time.
In Isaiah 21:3, the prophet himself feels loins filled with anguish and pangs like childbirth, a personal parallel.
In Isaiah 13:6-9, the day of the LORD brings pale faces and labor pains, closely matching the imagery here.
Isaiah 26:17 compares anguish to a woman writhing in childbirth, matching the labor metaphor for distress here.
Isaiah 13:8 uses the same imagery of men gripped by pangs like a woman in labor, faces aflame—a parallel description of terror.
John 16:21 applies the labor metaphor to the disciples' sorrow that turns to joy, shifting the focus from judgment to resurrection hope.