Mark 13:8

Good News Translation (US Version)

Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one another. There will be earthquakes everywhere, and there will be famines. These things are like the first pains of childbirth.

Cross References

Matthew 24:8

All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.

Isaiah 37:3

This is the message which he told them to give to Isaiah: “Today is a day of suffering; we are being punished and are in disgrace. We are like a woman who is ready to give birth, but is too weak to do it.

Psalm 48:6

There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

Revelation 6:4

Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given the power to bring war on the earth, so that people should kill each other. He was given a large sword.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

Acts 11:28

One of them, named Agabus, stood up and by the power of the Spirit predicted that a severe famine was about to come over all the earth. (It came when Claudius was emperor.)

Zechariah 14:13

At that time the Lord will make them so confused and afraid that everyone will seize the man next to him and attack him.

Haggai 2:22

and overthrow kingdoms and end their power. I will overturn chariots and their drivers; the horses will die, and their riders will kill one another.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylonia hears the news, and his hands hang limp. He is seized by anguish, by pain like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 49:24

The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 25:32

The Lord Almighty says that disaster is coming on one nation after another, and a great storm is gathering at the far ends of the earth.

Jeremiah 22:23

You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon; but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you, pains like those of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard the news,” say the people of Jerusalem, “and our hands hang limp; we are seized by anguish and pain like a woman in labor.

Isaiah 19:2

The Lord says, “I will stir up civil war in Egypt and turn brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. Rival cities will fight each other, and rival kings will struggle for power.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard a cry, like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman bearing her first child. It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath, stretching out her hand and saying, “I am doomed! They are coming to kill me!”

2 Chronicles 15:6

One nation oppressed another nation, and one city oppressed another city, because God was bringing trouble and distress on them.

Isaiah 29:6

the Lord Almighty will rescue you with violent thunderstorms and earthquakes. He will send windstorms and raging fire;

Mark 13:7

And don't be troubled when you hear the noise of battles close by and news of battles far away. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end has come.

Mark 13:9

“You yourselves must watch out. You will be arrested and taken to court. You will be beaten in the synagogues; you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake to tell them the Good News.