Mark 13:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁵ and the stars will be falling from the sky and the forces of the heavens will be shaken. [Note: From the description of these same events in Luke 21:25-26, it is possible that this is figurative language for great calamities happening on earth].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. [Isa. 34:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The stars will fall from the sky, and the planets and other heavenly bodies will be shaken.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ And the stars of heaven will be falling down, and the powers that are in heaven will be moved.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ And the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers that are in heaven, shall be moved.

Mark 13:25 Cross References

Matthew 24:29

“But immediately after the terrible trouble of those days, [i.e., the next major event on God’s calendar], the sun will become dark, and [therefore] the moon will not [be able to] shed its [reflected] light. The stars will fall from the sky and the forces of the heavens will be shaken [Note: From the description of these same events in Luke 21:25-26, it is possible that this is figurative language for great calamities happening on the earth].

Revelation 6:13

And the stars in the sky fell to earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a strong wind.