Revelation 12:2
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.
- KJV
- And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
- WEB
- She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
- ASV
- and she was the child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
- DARBY
- and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in pain to bring forth.
- BLB
- and having in womb. And she cries out, being in labor, and being in pain to bring forth.
- ÅB
- og hun var fruktsommelig og skrek i barnsnød og fødsels-veer.
- OTB
- Hun var med barn og ropte i veer og fødselsmerter.
- B1930
- og hun var fruktsommelig og skrek i barnsnød og fødsels-veer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 16:21
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Read in contextGalatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Read in contextRevelation 12:4
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Read in contextIsaiah 66:7–9
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Read in contextMicah 5:3
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Read in contextGalatians 4:27
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Read in contextIsaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
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