'Labor' in the Bible
“But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
I hear a cry like a woman in labor,a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,stretching out her hands:Woe is me, for my life is wearybecause of the murderers!
We have heard about it,and we are discouraged.Distress has seized us—pain like a woman in labor.
What will you say when He appointsclose friends as leaders over you,ones you yourself trained?Won’t labor pains seize you,as they do a woman in labor?
I will hand over all the wealth of this city to their enemies. I will hand over to them all the fruits of the labor of the people of this city and all their prized possessions, as well as all the treasures of the kings of Judah. Their enemies will seize it all as plunder and carry it off to Babylon.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.
You residents of Lebanon,nestled among the cedars,how you will groan when labor pains come on you,agony like a woman in labor.
Ask and seewhether a male can give birth.Why then do I see every manwith his hands on his stomach like a woman in laborand every face turned pale?
Look, I'm bringing them from the northern region, and I'll gather them from the farthest parts of the earth. among them will be the blind and the lame, together with the pregnant woman and the woman in labor. A large group will return here.
The towns will be captured and the strongholds seized. On that day the hearts of the warriors of Moab will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Look, he will rise up and fly swiftly like an eagle. He will spread his wings against Bozrah, and on that day the hearts of the warriors of Edom will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Damascus has become weak;she has turned to run;panic has gripped her.Distress and labor pains have seized herlike a woman in labor.
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them,and his hands fall helpless.Distress has seized him—pain, like a woman in labor.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
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Related Words
- Labeled (2 instances in 2 translations)
- Labor-this (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Labored (35 instances in 9 translations)
- Laborer (17 instances in 8 translations)
- Laborer's (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Laborers (27 instances in 8 translations)
- Laborest (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Laboreth (8 instances in 1 translation)
- Laboring (10 instances in 6 translations)
- Laborious (14 instances in 2 translations)
- Laboriously (2 instances in 2 translations)
- Labors (31 instances in 8 translations)
- Labour (121 instances in 4 translations)
- Laboured (34 instances in 4 translations)
- Labourer (6 instances in 4 translations)
- Labourers (9 instances in 4 translations)
- Laboureth (7 instances in 3 translations)
- Labouring (18 instances in 3 translations)
- Labouriousness (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Labours (20 instances in 4 translations)
Bible Theasaurus
- Confinement (8 instances)
- Dig (28 instances)
- Drive (160 instances)
- Drudgery (3 instances)
- Grind (18 instances)
- Hammering (8 instances)
- Industry (7 instances)
- Labor (210 instances)
- Labour (121 instances)
- Project (14 instances)
- Push (29 instances)
- Task (59 instances)
- Toil (65 instances)
- Travail (49 instances)
- Undertaking (33 instances)
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