Cross references
Isaiah 13:8
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look at one another,
their faces flushed with fear.
Isaiah 13:8 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 26:17 (4 votes) and Nahum 2:10 (4 votes). 44 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Genesis 3 to Revelation 6.
Which verses does Isaiah 13:8 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 26:174 votes
As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
- Nahum 2:104 votes
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
- 1 Thessalonians 5:34 votes
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- Isaiah 21:3–43 votes
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see. My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
- Psalm 48:5–62 votes
They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror. Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 4:312 votes
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
- Jeremiah 30:62 votes
Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
- Jeremiah 50:432 votes
The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.
- Daniel 5:5–62 votes
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing, his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.
- Joel 2:62 votes
Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
- John 16:212 votes
Which verses point to Isaiah 13:8?
The 10 strongest of 44.