Lexicon :: Strong's G4726 - stenagmos

He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;

you will bear children with painful effort.

Your desire will be for your husband,

yet he will rule over you.

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

“Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, the LORD was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The LORD was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them.

I sigh when food is put before me,[fn]

and my groans pour out like water.

Today also my complaint is bitter.[fn]

His[fn] hand is heavy despite my groaning.

I am weary from my groaning;

with my tears I dampen my bed

and drench my couch every night.

“Because of the devastation of the needy

and the groaning of the poor,

I will now rise up,” says the LORD.

“I will provide safety for the one who longs for it.”

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my strength has failed

because of my iniquity,[fn]

and my bones waste away.

I am faint and severely crushed;

I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

Let the groans of the prisoners reach you;

according to your great power,

preserve those condemned to die.

Because of the sound of my groaning,

my flesh sticks to my bones.

to hear a prisoner’s groaning,

to set free those condemned to die,[fn]

and the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

And the ransomed of the LORD will return

and come to Zion with singing,

crowned with unending joy.

Joy and gladness will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee.

I hear a cry like a woman in labor,

a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.

The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,

stretching out her hands:

“Woe is me, for my life is weary

because of the murderers! ”

“‘You have said, “Woe is me, because the LORD has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with[fn] groaning and have found no rest.” ’

Let all their wickedness come before you,

and deal with them

as you have dealt with me

because of all my transgressions.

For my groans are many,

and I am sick at heart.

“Groan quietly; do not observe mourning rites for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.”[fn]

This is another thing you do. You are covering the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.