Mark 13:8 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁸ Nation will rise 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labour.

Isaiah 19:2

‘I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian – brother will fight against brother, neighbour against neighbour, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 29:6

the Lord Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 37:3

They told him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: this day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when the Lord sets over you those you cultivated as your special allies? Will not pain grip you like that of a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 22:23

You who live in “Lebanon,” who are nestled in cedar buildings, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in labour!

Jeremiah 25:32

This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Look! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.’

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry as of a woman in labour, a groan as of one bearing her first child – the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, ‘Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.’

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become feeble, she has turned to flee and panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her, pain like that of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labour.

Haggai 2:22

I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

Zechariah 14:13

On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.

Matthew 24:8

All these are the beginning of birth-pains.

Mark 13:7

When you hear of wars and rumours of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Mark 13:9

‘You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

Acts 11:28

One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.)

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety’, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 6:4

Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.