Six of their names on one stone, and [the other] six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.
A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
[As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.