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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

2. (v. t.) To distress with extreme pain or grief.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ANGUISH

an'-gwish: Extreme distress of body, mind or spirit; excruciating pain or suffering of soul, e.g. excessive grief, remorse, despair. Chiefly expressed in Old Testament, by four derivatives of tsuq, "straitened," "pressed," and tsar, and two derivatives signifying "straitness," "narrowness," hence distress; also shabhats, "giddiness," "confusion of mind"; hul "to twist" with pain, "writhe." So in the New Testament, thlipsis, "a pressing together," hence affliction, tribulation, stenochoria, "narrowness of place," hence extreme affliction; sunoche, "a holding together," hence distress. The fundamental idea in these various terms is pressure-being straitened, compressed into a narrow place, or pain through physical or mental torture. Used of the physical agony of child-birth (Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 50:43 John 16:21); of distress of soul as the result of sin and wickedness (Job 15:24 Proverbs 1:27 Romans 2:9); of anguish of spirit through the cruel bondage of slavery (Exodus 6:9) and Assyrian oppression (Isaiah 8:22); of the anxiety and pain of Christian love because of the sins of fellow-disciples (2 Corinthians 2:4).

Dwight M. Pratt

Greek

4928. sunoche -- a holding together, fig. distress
... distress. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: sunoche Phonetic Spelling:
(soon-okh-ay') Short Definition: distress, anguish Definition: distress ...
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4730. stenochoria -- narrowness of space, fig. difficulty
... stenochoria Phonetic Spelling: (sten-okh-o-ree'-ah) Short Definition: a narrow space,
great distress Definition: a narrow space, great distress, anguish. ...
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2347. thlipsis -- tribulation
... Word Origin from thlibo Definition tribulation NASB Word Usage affliction (14),
afflictions (6), anguish (1), distress (2), persecution (1), tribulation (16 ...
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4192. ponos -- labor
... Masculine Transliteration: ponos Phonetic Spelling: (pon'-os) Short Definition:
labor, pain Definition: (a) labor, toil, (b) pain, anguish, distress, suffering ...
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74. agonia -- a contest, great fear
... agony. From agon; a struggle (properly, the state), ie (figuratively) anguish --
agony. see GREEK agon. (agonia) -- 1 Occurrence. 73, 74. agonia. 75 . ...
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4663. skolex -- a worm
... of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: skolex Phonetic Spelling: (sko'-lakes)
Short Definition: a gnawing worm Definition: a gnawing worm; gnawing anguish ...
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3601. odune -- pain, distress
... Cognate: 3601 -- intense emotional pain (personal anguish); , which is emotionally
lethal if experienced apart from God's grace which comforts. See 3600 (). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2479. chalchalah -- anguish
... 2478, 2479. chalchalah. 2480 . anguish. Transliteration: chalchalah Phonetic
Spelling: (khal-khaw-law') Short Definition: anguish. ...
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2427. chil -- a writhing, anguish
... 2426, 2427. chil. 2428 . a writhing, anguish. Transliteration: chil Phonetic
Spelling: (kheel) Short Definition: agony. Word Origin ...
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2430b. chilah -- anguish
... chilah. 2431 . anguish. Transliteration: chilah Short Definition: pain. Word Origin
from chul Definition anguish NASB Word Usage pain (1). 2430a, 2430b. ...
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4164. mutsaq -- constraint, distress
... mutsaq or mutsaq. 4165 . constraint, distress. Transliteration: mutsaq or mutsaq
Phonetic Spelling: (moo-tsak') Short Definition: anguish. ... anguish, straitness. ...
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2342a. chul -- to whirl, dance, writhe
chul or chil. 2342, 2342a. chul or chil. 2342b . to whirl, dance, writhe.
Transliteration: chul or chil Short Definition: anguish. Word Origin a prim. ...
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4689. matsoq -- straits, stress
... distress. Word Origin from tsuq Definition straits, stress NASB Word Usage
anguish (1), distress (5). anguish, distress. From tsuwq ...
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4691. metsuqah -- straits, stress
... Word Origin from tsuq Definition straits, stress NASB Word Usage anguish
(1), distress (1), distresses (5). anguish, distress. Or ...
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6695. tsowq -- constraint, distress
... 6694, 6695. tsowq. 6695a . constraint, distress. Transliteration: tsowq Phonetic
Spelling: (tsoke) Short Definition: anguish. anguish, troublous ...
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7115. qotser -- shortness
... anguish. From qatsar; shortness (of spirit), ie Impatience -- anguish. see HEBREW
qatsar. 7114b, 7115. qotser. 7116 . Strong's Numbers.
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5892a. ir -- excitement
... excitement. Transliteration: ir Short Definition: anguish. Word Origin from ur
Definition excitement NASB Word Usage anguish (1), wrath (1). 5892, 5892a. ...
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Library

Anguish
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CXI ANGUISH. My God and King! to Thee I
bow my knee; I bow my troubled soul, and greet. With my foul heart Thy holy feet ...
//christianbookshelf.org/palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/cxi anguish.htm

Bowed with Grief and Anguish Low,
... MEDITATIONS Bowed with grief and anguish low,. tr., John Brownlie 7.7.7.7.7.7. I.
Bowed with grief and anguish low,. Weary with the clouded way; ...
/.../brownlie/hymns of the apostolic church/bowed with grief and anguish.htm

"Trust Ye in the Lord. " 1 when Grief and Anguish Press Me Down
... SUBMISSION AND RELIANCE. 606. " "Trust ye in the Lord." 1 When grief and anguish
press me down. 606. CM Anonymous. "Trust ye in the Lord.". ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/adams/hymns for christian devotion/606 trust ye in.htm

Faith and Works
... absurdity, to signify such an attachment to those worldly things"albeit legitimate
in themselves"that one cannot suffer their loss without anguish in the ...
/.../augustine/handbook on faith hope and love/chapter xviii faith and.htm

O Wounded Hands and Feet!
... Beneath the stinging thorn! O Jesus, Lord divine,. Why was such anguish Thine? II.
The angels were amazed,. ... O Jesus, Lord divine,. Why was such anguish Thine? III ...
/.../brownlie/hymns from the morningland/o wounded hands and feet.htm

O Wounded Hands and Feet!
... O Jesus, Lord divine,. Why was such anguish Thine? The angels were amazed,. ... O Jesus,
Lord divine,. Why was such anguish Thine? My soul, canst thou not tell. ...
/.../brownlie/hymns of the russian church/vii o wounded hands and.htm

Repentance
... A man who has lived in a course of sin, at last is made sensible; he sees hell ready
to devour him, and is filled with anguish and horror; but after a while ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/4 2 repentance.htm

Submission.
... I have been once a pastor of the Lord! Then groans of anguish in my soul
would rise,. ... Then groans of anguish in my soul would rise,. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/borthwick/hymns from the land of luther/submission 2.htm

The Burden of My Sin was Great,
... O Christ, did all Thy pain and woe. Give anguish like to this? V. ... I felt the dark
come down;". The anguish of His wounded soul,. The stinging of the crown. VII. ...
/.../brownlie/hymns of the apostolic church/the burden of my sin.htm

Of Patient Endurance
... He suffered shame, and anguish, and cold, before all the world: for He was naked,
and it was cold, and a searching wind cut into His wounds. ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter v of patient endurance.htm

Thesaurus

Anguish (75 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ANGUISH. ... Multi-Version Concordance Anguish (75
Occurrences). Matthew 26:37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi ...
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Agony (20 Occurrences)
... and suffering. Anguish is the reflection on evil that is already past, while
agony is a struggle with evil at the time present. It ...
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Convulsion (8 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon
me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I ...
/c/convulsion.htm - 9k

Pain (172 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. 4. (n.) Uneasiness of
mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. ...
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Moaneth (4 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 16:11 Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts
for Kir-heres. (See JPS). Jeremiah 4:19 My anguish, my anguish! ...
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Pangs (26 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken
hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail. (WEB ASV). ...
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Pained (41 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon
me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I ...
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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). Isaiah 8:22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and
the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. ...
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Travail (54 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Wring (4 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) To writhe; to twist, as with anguish. 8. (n.) A writhing, as in anguish;
a twisting; a griping. Multi-Version Concordance Wring (4 Occurrences). ...
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Resources

Why did Jesus sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane? | GotQuestions.org

What is the meaning of travail in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What are the three woes of Revelation? | GotQuestions.org

Anguish: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Anguish (75 Occurrences)

Matthew 26:37
And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress,
(WEY)

Matthew 26:38
and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me."
(WEY)

Mark 14:34
and He said to them, "My heart is oppressed with anguish to the very point of death: wait here and keep awake."
(WEY)

Luke 2:48
When they saw Him, they were smitten with amazement, and His mother said to Him, "My child, why have you behaved thus to us? Your father and I have been searching for you in anguish."
(WEY)

Luke 16:24
He cried and said,'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
(WEB ASV RSV)

Luke 16:25
"But Abraham said,'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
(WEB ASV RSV)

Luke 21:25
"There will be signs in sun, moon, and stars; and on earth anguish among the nations in their bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and its billows;
(WEY NIV)

John 16:21
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 2:9
oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(WEB ASV)

Romans 9:2
when I declare that I have deep grief and unceasing anguish of heart.
(WEY RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
(See RSV)

Revelation 16:10
The fifth angel poured his bowl on to the throne of the Wild Beast; and his kingdom became darkened. People gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
(See RSV)

Genesis 42:21
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Exodus 6:9
Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 15:14
The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 2:25
This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 1:16
Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation."
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 31:3
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
(See JPS)

2 Samuel 1:9
He said to me,'Stand, please, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)

1 Chronicles 10:3
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
(See JPS)

Esther 4:4
Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it.
(See NAS)

Job 2:13
And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.
(DBY)

Job 6:2
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
(WEB NIV)

Job 7:11
"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 15:24
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 26:5
"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
(See NIV)

Psalms 6:3
My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
(See NIV)

Psalms 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
(See NIV)

Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
(See NIV)

Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
(See NIV)

Psalms 48:6
Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail.
(DBY NAS RSV)

Psalms 55:4
My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 77:16
The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
(See NAS)

Psalms 116:3
The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
(DBY RSV NIV)

Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
(See NIV)

Isaiah 8:22
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Isaiah 9:1
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be affrighted; pangs and throes shall take hold them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail; they shall look aghast one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 21:3
Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Isaiah 23:5
When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
(WEB

Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
(WEB NIV)

Isaiah 53:11
... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 65:14
behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
(See RSV)

Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.
(See JPS)

Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 48:5
For by the ascent of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the descent of Horonaim is heard the anguish of the cry of destruction.
(DBY NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 49:24
Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
(See NIV)

Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
(See JPS)

Lamentations 3:19
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
(See JPS)

Ezekiel 7:25
Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 27:31
and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 30:4
A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 30:9
In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 30:16
I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis shall have adversaries in the daytime.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS)

Daniel 6:20
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
(See RSV NIV)

Daniel 10:16
and lo, as the manner of the sons of men, he is striking against my lips, and I open my mouth, and I speak, and say unto him who is standing over-against me: My lord, by the appearance turned have been my pangs against me, and I have retained no power.
(See NAS NIV)

Joel 2:6
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 5:16
Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets,'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
(See NIV)

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
(ASV NAS RSV)

Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
(See NIV)

Zephaniah 1:15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
(WEB RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Anguish

Related Terms

Agony (20 Occurrences)

Convulsion (8 Occurrences)

Pain (172 Occurrences)

Moaneth (4 Occurrences)

Pangs (26 Occurrences)

Pained (41 Occurrences)

Gloom (29 Occurrences)

Travail (54 Occurrences)

Wring (4 Occurrences)