Luke 21:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Men swooning away or expiring with fear and dread and apprehension and expectation of the things that are coming on the world; for the [very] powers of the heavens will be shaken and caused to totter.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Common English Bible

²⁶ The planets and other heavenly bodies will be shaken, causing people to faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ men withering away out of fear and out of apprehension over the things that will overwhelm the whole world. For the powers of the heavens will be moved.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Men withering away for fear, and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved;

Luke 21:26 Cross References

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land— only darkness and distress; and the light grows dark with its clouds.

Leviticus 26:36

And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Mark 13:25

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Luke 21:25

“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.

Luke 21:27

Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in a cloud’ with power and great glory.