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These things are like the first pains of childbirth. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/mark/13-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/mark/13-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/mark/13-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/mark/1.htm">Mark</a> > <a href="/gntd/mark/13.htm">Chapter 13</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/13-7.htm" title="Mark 13:7">◄</a> Mark 13:8 <a href="../mark/13-9.htm" title="Mark 13:9">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/mark/13.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/mark/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one another. There will be earthquakes everywhere, and there will be famines. These things are like the first pains of childbirth. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/mark/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/mark/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Nations and kingdoms will go to war against each other. There will be earthquakes in many places, and people will starve to death. But this is just the beginning of troubles. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/mark/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes from place to place and there will be famines. These are the beginnings of the labor pains. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/mark/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows.</p><p class="hdg">nation shalt.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/15-6.htm">2 Chronicles 15:6</a> For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/19-2.htm">Isaiah 19:2</a> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/25-32.htm">Jeremiah 25:32</a> Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../haggai/2-22.htm">Haggai 2:22</a> And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and will destroy the strength of the kingdom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the chariot, and him that rideth therein: and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/14-13.htm">Zechariah 14:13</a> In that day there shall be a great tumult from the Lord among them: and a man shall take the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped upon his neighbour's hand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/6-4.htm">Revelation 6:4</a> And there went out another horse that was red. And to him that sat thereon, it was given that he should take peace from the earth: and that they should kill one another. And a great sword was given to him.</p><p class="hdg">famines.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/11-28.htm">Acts 11:28</a> 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.</p><p class="hdg">these.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/24-8.htm">Matthew 24:8</a> Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.</p><p class="hdg">sorrows.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/48-6.htm">Psalm 48:6</a> Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/37-3.htm">Isaiah 37:3</a> And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-31.htm">Jeremiah 4:31</a> For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-24.htm">Jeremiah 6:24</a> We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21</a> What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/22-23.htm">Jeremiah 22:23</a> Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a woman in labour?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/49-24.htm">Jeremiah 49:24</a> Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/50-43.htm">Jeremiah 50:43</a> The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in labour.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/4-9.htm">Micah 4:9,10</a> And thou, O cloudy tower of the flock, of the daughter of Sion, unto thee shall it come: yea the first power shall come, the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/5-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:3</a> For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/mark/13.htm">Temple Destruction Foretold</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not. For such things must needs be: but the end is not yet. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows.</span> <span class="reftext">9</span>But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you Up to councils: and in the synagogues you shall be beaten: and you shall stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/29-6.htm">Isaiah 29:6</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/24-8.htm">Matthew 24:8</a></span><br />Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/13-7.htm">Mark 13:7</a></span><br />And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not. For such things must needs be: but the end is not yet.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/13-9.htm">Mark 13:9</a></span><br />But look to yourselves. 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