Revelation 12:2 “She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.”

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

World English Bible

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

American Standard Version

and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

Geneva Bible 1599

And she was with childe, and cried traueiling in birth, and was pained readie to be deliuered.

Darby Translation

and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in pain to bring forth.

Young's Literal Translation

and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.

Bible in Basic English

And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

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Cross references

“travailing”

John 16:21 Galatians 4:19 Revelation 12:4 Micah 5:3 Isaiah 53:11 Galatians 4:27

John 16:21 · BSB

A 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 4:19 · BSB

My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Revelation 12:4 · BSB

His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, hurling 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.

Micah 5:3 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Isaiah 53:11 · BSB

After 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.

Galatians 4:27 · BSB

For 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.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

3Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.

Read Revelation 12