Mark 13:8
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8 For nation will rise against nation, and (A)kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines [a]and troubles. (B)These are the beginnings of [b]sorrows.
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Revelation 6:4
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4 (A)Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to (B)take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
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Acts 11:28
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28 Then one of them, named (A)Agabus, stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of (B)Claudius Caesar.
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Jeremiah 6:24
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24 We have heard the report of it;
Our hands grow feeble.
(A)Anguish has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in [a]labor.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 6:24 childbirth
Isaiah 19:2
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2 “I will (A)set Egyptians against Egyptians;
Everyone will fight against his brother,
And everyone against his neighbor,
City against city, kingdom against kingdom.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (A)sudden destruction comes upon them, (B)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Matthew 24:8
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8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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Zechariah 14:13
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13 It shall come to pass in that day
That (A)a great panic from the Lord will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise (B)his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
Haggai 2:22
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22 (A)I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms;
I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms.
(B)I will overthrow the chariots
And those who ride in them;
The horses and their riders shall come down,
Every one by the sword of his brother.
Micah 4:9-10
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9 Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in your midst?
Has your counselor perished?
For (B)pangs have seized you like a woman in [a]labor.
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to (C)Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the (D)Lord will (E)redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
Footnotes
- Micah 4:9 childbirth
Jeremiah 50:43
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43 “The king of Babylon has (A)heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in (B)childbirth.
Jeremiah 49:24
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24 Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
(A)Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in [a]labor.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 49:24 childbirth
Jeremiah 25:32
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32 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, disaster shall go forth
From nation to nation,
And (A)a great whirlwind shall be raised up
From the farthest parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 22:23
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23 O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like (A)the pain of a woman in [a]labor?
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- Jeremiah 22:23 childbirth
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when He punishes you?
For you have taught them
To be chieftains, to be head over you.
Will not (A)pangs seize you,
Like a woman in [a]labor?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 13:21 childbirth
Jeremiah 4:31
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31 “For I have heard a voice as of a woman in [a]labor,
The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself;
She (A)spreads her hands, saying,
‘Woe is me now, for my soul is [b]weary
Because of murderers!’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:31 childbirth
- Jeremiah 4:31 faint
Isaiah 37:3
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3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of (A)trouble and rebuke and [a]blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.
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- Isaiah 37:3 contempt
Psalm 48:6
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6 Fear (A)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
2 Chronicles 15:6
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6 (A)So nation was [a]destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:6 Lit. beaten in pieces
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