Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
World English 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, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says the LORD.
Micah 5:3Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
Revelation 12:4His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might 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 →