They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
Matthew 24:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place; American Standard Version (1901) For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. Common English Bible Nations and kingdoms will fight against each other, and there will be famines and earthquakes in all sorts of places. Catholic Public Domain Version For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: |
They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, one against the other, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
you will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!
A ruin, a ruin, a ruin— I will make it! (Such has never occurred.) Until he comes whose right it is; to him I will give it.
On that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of a neighbor, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other;
there will be great earthquakes and in various places famines and plagues, and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven.
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine over all the world, and this took place during the reign of Claudius.
And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.
This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
When he broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come!” I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,
and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s pay and three quarts of barley for a day’s pay, but do not damage the olive oil and the wine!”
I looked, and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him; they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and pestilence and by the wild animals of the earth.