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 was named Agabus. He indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was about to come on the entire earth. He said it would come to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
These
Matthew 24:8
These things are the beginning of birth pains (Greek: odin': in the throws of pain, such as childbirth).
Sorrows
Psalm 48:6
Panic seized them there, Anguish, like a woman in childbirth.
Isaiah 37:3
They said to him: Hezekiah says: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.
Jeremiah 4:31
I hear a woman in labor. I hear the woman cry with anguish as she gives birth to her first child. My people Zion gasp for breath. They stretch out their hands and say: How horrible it is for us! My life is exhausted by the presence of murderers!
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report! Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us! We have pain like a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Will pain grip you like a woman in labor?
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!
Jeremiah 49:24
The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and he loses courage. Anguish will grip him as pain grips a woman in labor.
Micah 4:9
Why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? Has pain taken hold of you like a woman in childbirth?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.
General references
Isaiah 29:6
Jehovah of Hosts will visit you with a thundering earthquake. A huge whirlwind will bring loud noise and a devouring fire.