New Revised Standard Version
trembling took hold of them there, pains as of a woman in labor,

Contemporary English Version
They trembled all over like women giving birth

New American Bible
Trembling seized them there, anguish, like a woman’s labor,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

Fear

Exodus 15:15,16 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff. . . .

Isaiah 13:6-8 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord. . . .

Daniel 5:6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

pain

Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.

Jeremiah 30:6,7 Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow? . . .

Hosea 13:13 The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.