Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Jeremiah 22:23 in English Standard Version "O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”" Isa 13:8 They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. Jer 6:24 We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor. Jer 22:6 For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.