(1) These things are the beginning of birth pangs.

(2) Have you any idea of the birth pangs of civilization?

(3) Lamaze breathing birth; birth pangs; postpartum hemorrhage; asphyxia; cesarean section.

(4) " The birth pangs of a new Middle East, " claimed Condoleezza Pollyanna Rice last week as Hizbullah's rockets slammed into Israel and Israel's aircraft pulverised Lebanon.

(5) But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

(6) Every mother knows that as the birth gets closer, the contractions or birth pangs become both intense and more frequent.

(7) Rice was correct in summer 2006 when she said we are witnessing the birth pangs of a new Middle East.

(8) Thes. 5:3 When they say, Peace and security, then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as birth pangs to a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape.

(9) For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.