Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Famines
These
Sorrows
General references
Bible References
Famines
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Claudius.
These
Matthew 24:8 But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
Sorrows
Psalm 48:6 Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as ofa woman in childbirth.
Anguish, as of
Isaiah 37:3
They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.
Jeremiah 4:31 For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
Thecry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
Stretching out her hands, saying,
“Ah, woe is me, forI faint before murderers.”
The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
The
“Ah, woe is me, for
Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the report of it;
Our hands are limp.
Anguish has seized us,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
Our hands are limp.
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 13:21 “What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Formercompanions to be head over you?
Will notpangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?
And you yourself had taught them—
Former
Will not
Like a woman in childbirth?
Jeremiah 22:23 “You who dwell in Lebanon,
Nested in the cedars,
How you will groan when pangs come upon you,
Pain like a woman in childbirth!
Nested in the cedars,
How you will groan when pangs come upon you,
Jeremiah 49:24 “Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
Distress and pangs have taken hold of her
Like a woman in childbirth.
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
Like a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 50:43 “The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
Distress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.
And his hands hang limp;
Agony like a woman in childbirth.
Micah 4:9 “Now, why do you cry out loudly?
Is there no king among you,
Or has yourcounselor perished,
That agony has gripped you like a woman in childbirth?
Is there no king among you,
Or has your
That agony has gripped you like a woman in childbirth?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
General references
Isaiah 29:6 From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.