Revelation 12:2
“And shee being with childe, cried, trauailing in birth, and pained to be deliuered.”
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Revelation 12:2 Context
1And there appeared a great wonder in heauen, a woman clothed with the Sunne, & the Moone vnder her feete, and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres: 2And shee being with childe, cried, trauailing in birth, and pained to be deliuered. 3And there appeared another wonder in heauen, and behold a great red dragon, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes, and seuen crownes vpon his heads. 4And his taile drew the third part of the starres of heauen, and did cast them to the earth: And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be deliuered, for to deuoure her childe as soone as it was borne.
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Other Translations for Revelation 12:2
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
- King James Version
and she was with child; and she *cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
- Basic English Bible
and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in pain to bring forth.
- Darby Bible
And she being with child, cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
- Webster's Bible
and she was crying out in the pains and agony of childbirth.
- Weymouth Bible
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
- World English Bible
And sche hadde in wombe, and sche crieth, trauelynge of child, and is turmentid, that sche bere child.
- Wycliffe Bible
and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Revelation 12:2
12:2 And being with child she crieth, travailing in birth - The very pain, without any outward opposition, would constrain a woman in travail to cry out. These cries, throes, and pains to be delivered, were the painful longings, the sighs, and prayers of the saints for the coming of the kingdom of God. The woman groaned and travailed in spirit, that Christ might appear, as the Shepherd and King of all nations.
People's Bible Notes for Revelation 12:2
Re 12:2 She being with child cried. Again we must let the Scripture explain its own meaning. "As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children" (Isa 66:8). The travail of Zion causeth an increase. See also Isa 54:1 49:20, where the same figure is used. The state of the woman therefore implies a Church in sorrow, a suffering Church, but out of whose suffering there cometh an increase of the saints. It is a period when the saints are multiplied in the midst of persecution.