Revelation 12:2
She was pregnant, and she was crying out in birth pains, in the anguish of childbirth.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 54:1“Sing, you barren woman, you who have not given birth; break into joyful singing and cry aloud, you who have never been in birth labor. 1 For the children of the desolate one are more than the children of the married woman,” says Yahweh. 1
Micah 5:3Therefore God will give them up, 1 until the time when she who is in labor bears a child, 1 and the rest of his brothers return to the people of Israel. 1
Galatians 4:19My little children, again I am in the pains of childbirth for you until Christ is formed in you.
Revelation 12:4His tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them down to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth, he would devour her child.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 12:2-12
The Woman and the Dragon. ( a. d. 95.) 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: 2 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… Read the whole commentary →