all creation lets out a groan in common pain

συνωδίνω (ὠδίνω ‘be in pain’ as in childbirth; Eur., Hel. 727; Aelian, NA 3, 45 p. 78, 5 after Aristot.; Porphyr., Abst. 3, 10) suffer agony together πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις συστενάζει καὶ συνωδίνει all creation lets out a groan in common pain Ro 8:22 (on στενάζειν and the ὠδῖνες of the κτίσις cp. Heraclit. Sto. c. 39 p. 58, 9 ἐπειδὰν ἡ μεμυκυῖα γῆ τὰς κυοφορουμένας ἔνδον ὠδῖνας ἐκφήνῃ=when [after the winter’s cold] the groaning earth gives birth in pain to what has been formed within her.—Diod S 5, 5, 1 quotes the tragic poet Carcinus: all Sicily, filled with fire from Aetna, groaned [στενάξαι] over the loss of Persephone).—DELG s.v. ὠδίς.