²² for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

⁴ Till when doth the earth mourn, And the herb of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of those dwelling in it, Consumed have been beast and fowl, Because they said, `He doth not see our latter end.'

¹¹ He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

⁶ Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

²¹ `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

²⁰ for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject `it' -- in hope,

²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

² and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.