Mark 13:8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:6

Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every possible distress.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,

Isaiah 19:2

I will provoke Egypt against Egypt; each will fight against his brother and each against his friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 29:6

you will be visited by the Lord of Hosts with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise, storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.

Isaiah 37:3

They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when He appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won’t labor pains seize you, as they do a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 25:32

“This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Pay attention! Disaster spreads from nation to nation. A great storm is stirred up from the ends of the earth.”

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers!

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become weak; she has turned to run; panic has gripped her. Distress and labor pains have seized her like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands fall helpless. Distress has seized him — pain, like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard about it, and we are discouraged. Distress has seized us — pain like a woman in labor.

Haggai 2:22

I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother’s sword.

Zechariah 14:13

On that day a great panic from the Lord will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.

Matthew 24:8

All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

Mark 13:7

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be alarmed; these things must take place, but the end is not yet.

Mark 13:9

“But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to sanhedrins, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.

Acts 11:28

Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 6:4

Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its horseman was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.