Mark 13:8

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

Cross References (18)

  • Psalms 48:6 (4)

    Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

  • Matthew 24:8 (4)

    All these are the beginning of birth pains.

  • Isaiah 37:3 (3)

    to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to th

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (3)

    While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant

  • Haggai 2:22 (3)

    I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their r

  • Jeremiah 49:24 (2)

    Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman

  • Jeremiah 13:21 (2)

    What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as t

  • Zechariah 14:13 (2)

    On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand o

  • Jeremiah 22:23 (2)

    O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a wom

  • Micah 4:9–10 (2)

    Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman

  • Jeremiah 6:24 (2)

    We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  • Jeremiah 50:43 (2)

    The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in

  • Acts 11:28 (2)

    One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole worl

  • Isaiah 19:2 (2)

    “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against

  • Jeremiah 25:32 (2)

    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from

  • Revelation 6:4 (1)

    Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth

  • 2 Chronicles 15:6 (1)

    Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

  • Jeremiah 4:31 (1)

    For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zio