pangs have: Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 26:17; Psalms 48:6; Jeremiah 48:41, Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 50:43; Micah 4:9-10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
I was bowed: Deuteronomy 28:67; Daniel 5:5-6
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Isaiah 21:3
Isaiah 21:3
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