Luke 21:11
New International Version
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

New Living Translation
There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and plagues in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs from heaven.

English Standard Version
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Berean Standard Bible
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

Berean Literal Bible
There will be both great earthquakes, and famines and pestilences in different places. There will also be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

King James Bible
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

New King James Version
And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

New American Standard Bible
and there will be massive earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrible sights and great signs from heaven.

NASB 1995
and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

NASB 1977
and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Legacy Standard Bible
and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Amplified Bible
There will be violent earthquakes, and in various places famines and [deadly and devastating] pestilences (plagues, epidemics); and there will be terrible sights and great signs from heaven.

Christian Standard Bible
There will be violent earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There will be violent earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

American Standard Version
and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Great earthquakes shall be in various places, and there shall be famines and plagues and panics and terror, and great signs from the sky shall appear and there shall be great storms.

Contemporary English Version
There will be great earthquakes, and in many places people will starve to death and suffer terrible diseases. All sorts of frightening things will be seen in the sky.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there shall be great signs.

English Revised Version
and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There will be terrible earthquakes, famines, and dreadful diseases in various places. Terrifying sights and miraculous signs will come from the sky.

Good News Translation
There will be terrible earthquakes, famines, and plagues everywhere; there will be strange and terrifying things coming from the sky.

International Standard Version
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places, and there will be fearful events and awful signs from heaven."

Literal Standard Version
also great shakings, and there will be famines and pestilences in every place; also there will be fearful things and great signs from the sky;

Majority Standard Bible
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

New American Bible
There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky.

NET Bible
There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

New Revised Standard Version
there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven.

New Heart English Bible
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
And great earthquakes will be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences: and fearful sights, and great signs will there be from heaven.

Weymouth New Testament
And there will be great earthquakes, and in places famines and pestilence; and there will be terrible sights and wonderful tokens from Heaven.

World English Bible
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;

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Context
Witnessing to All Nations
10Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven. 12But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.…

Cross References
Isaiah 29:6
you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

Joel 2:30
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

Matthew 24:7
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Luke 21:10
Then He told them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Luke 21:12
But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.


Treasury of Scripture

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

and great signs.

Luke 21:25-27
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; …

Matthew 24:29,30
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: …

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Luke 21
1. Jesus commends the poor widow.
5. He foretells the destruction of the temple, and of the city Jerusalem;
25. the signs also which shall be before the last day.
34. He exhorts them to be watchful.














(11) Famines and pestilences.--The mention of the latter is, as far as the best MSS. are concerned, a feature peculiar to St. Luke. Others, however, give the same combination in Matthew 24:7. The Greek nouns are all but identical in sound (limos = famine, and loimos = pestilence), and there is accordingly a kind of rhythmical emphasis of sound which cannot be reproduced in English.

Fearful sights.--The Greek word, literally things of terror, is peculiar to St. Luke. He omits here "the beginning of troubles." or "travail-pangs," which we find in St. Matthew and St. Mark.

Verse 11. - Great earthquakes. These seem to have been very frequent during the period; we hear of them in Palestine, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Crete, Syria. Famines and pestilences. The Jewish and pagan historians of this time - Josephus, Suetonius, Taecitus, and others - enumerate several memorable instances of these scourges in this eventful time. Fearful sights and great signs. Among the former may be especially enumerated the foul and terrible scenes connected with the proceedings of the Zealots (see Josephus,, Bell. Jud.,' 4:03. § 7; v. 6. § 1, etc.). Among the great signs "would be the rumor of monstrous births; the cry, 'Woe! woe!' for seven and a half years of the peasant Jesus, son of Hanan; the voice and sound of departing guardian-angels; and the sudden opening of the vast brazen temple gate which required twenty men to move it" (Farrar).

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Greek
There will be
ἔσονται (esontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

great
μεγάλοι (megaloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.

earthquakes,
σεισμοί (seismoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4578: A shaking (as an earthquake); a storm. From seio; a commotion, i.e. a gale, an earthquake.

famines,
λιμοὶ (limoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3042: A famine, hunger. Probably from leipo; a scarcity of food.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

pestilences
λοιμοὶ (loimoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3061: (a) a pestilence, (b) a pestilent fellow. Of uncertain affinity; a plague.

in various
κατὰ (kata)
Preposition
Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined).

places,
τόπους (topous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5117: Apparently a primary word; a spot, i.e. Location; figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard.

along with
τε (te)
Conjunction
Strong's 5037: And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also.

fearful sights
φόβητρά (phobētra)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 5400: Neuter of a derivative of phobeo; a frightening thing, i.e. Terrific portent.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

great
μεγάλα (megala)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.

signs
σημεῖα (sēmeia)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4592: Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of semaino; an indication, especially ceremonially or supernaturally.

from
ἀπ’ (ap’)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

heaven.
οὐρανοῦ (ouranou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.


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