New Revised Standard Version
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now;

Contemporary English Version
We know that all creation is still groaning and is in pain, like a woman about to give birth.

New American Bible
We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

the, etc.

Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.

Mark 16:15 And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

groaneth.

Psalm 48:6 Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 12:11 They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart.

John 16:21 A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Revelation 12:2 And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in pain to be delivered.