Cross references
Isaiah 21:3
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.
Isaiah 21:3 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 13:8 (5 votes) and Psalm 48:6 (4 votes). 38 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Thessalonians 5.
Which verses does Isaiah 21:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 13:85 votes
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.
- Psalm 48:64 votes
Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
- 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.
- Isaiah 16:113 votes
Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
- Jeremiah 48:413 votes
Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Micah 4:9–103 votes
Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor? Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
- 1 Thessalonians 5:33 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:672 votes
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
- Isaiah 15:52 votes
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- Isaiah 16:92 votes
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
- Jeremiah 49:222 votes
- Jeremiah 50:432 votes
- Daniel 5:5–62 votes
- Habakkuk 3:162 votes
Which verses point to Isaiah 21:3?
The 10 strongest of 38.