Mark 13:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines and calamities. This is but the beginning of the intolerable anguish and suffering [only the first of the birth pangs].

American Standard Version (1901)

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

Common English Bible

Nations and kingdoms will fight against each other, and there will be earthquakes and famines in all sorts of places. These things are just the beginning of the sufferings associated with the end.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom over kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are but the beginning of the sorrows.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows.

Mark 13:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 15:6

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

Isaiah 19:2

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

Isaiah 29:6

you will be punished by the  Lord of Armies 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.  It is as if 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 labour pains seize you, as they do a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 22:23

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

Jeremiah 25:32

‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: Pay attention! Disaster spreads from nation to nation. A huge storm is stirred up from the ends of the earth.’

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labour, 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 labour pains have seized her like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him – pain, like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard about it, and our hands have become weak. Distress has seized us – pain, like a woman in labour.

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 labour pains.

Mark 13:7

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

Mark 13:9

‘But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to local courts,   , 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

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 reign of Claudius.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 6:4

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