Matthew 24:7
Good News Translation
Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one another. There will be famines and earthquakes everywhere.

New Revised Standard Version
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places:

Contemporary English Version
Nations and kingdoms will go to war against each other. People will starve to death, and in some places there will be earthquakes.

New American Bible
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places.

nation shall.

2 Chronicles 15:6 For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

Isaiah 9:19-21 By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother. . . .

Isaiah 19:2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Ezekiel 21:27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was not done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it him.

Haggai 2:21,22 Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda, saying: I will move both heaven and earth. . . .

Zechariah 14:2,3,13 And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women shall be defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city. . . .

Hebrews 12:27 And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable.

famines.

Isaiah 24:19-23 With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved. . . .

Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,

Joel 2:30,31 And I will shew wonders in heaven; and in earth, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke. . . .

Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the west with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be separated to the north, and half thereof to the south.

Luke 21:11,25,26 And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places and pestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be great signs. . . .

Acts 2:19 And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.

Acts 11:28 And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius.

Context
Signs of the End of the Age
6And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places. 8Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 15:6
For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

Isaiah 19:2
And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 29:6
And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring fire.

Luke 21:11
And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places and pestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be great signs.

Acts 11:28
And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius.

Revelation 6:5
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying: Come and see. And behold a black horse. And he that sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.

Revelation 6:6
And I heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny: and see thou hurt not the wine and the oil.

Revelation 6:8
And behold a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death. And hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine and with death and with the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 6:12
And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Matthew 24:6
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