For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

民要攻打民，国要攻打国；多处必有地震、饥荒。这都是灾难的起头。

民要攻打民，国要攻打国，多处必有地震、饥荒。这都是灾难的起头。

民要攻打民，国要攻打国，多处必有地震、饥荒。这都是灾难的起头。

“民族将与民族互斗，国家将与国家相争，各处将有地震和饥荒。这些只是灾难的开始。

一个民族要起来攻打另一个民族，一个国家要起来攻打另一个国家，到处要有地震，有饥荒，这些不过是痛苦的开始。

一个民族要起来反对另一个民族，一个国家要起来反对另一个国家；到处都会有地震和饥荒。这些都像临产阵痛的开始。

民要攻打民，國要攻打國；多處必有地震、饑荒。這都是災難的起頭。

民要攻打民，國要攻打國，多處必有地震、饑荒。這都是災難的起頭。

民要攻打民，國要攻打國，多處必有地震、饑荒。這都是災難的起頭。

「民族將與民族互鬥，國家將與國家相爭，各處將有地震和饑荒。這些只是災難的開始。

一個民族要起來攻打另一個民族，一個國家要起來攻打另一個國家，到處要有地震，有饑荒，這些不過是痛苦的開始。

因為外邦必起來攻打外邦；國必攻打國；許多地方必有地震，有饑荒：這些事只是災難的起頭。

一個民族要起來反對另一個民族，一個國家要起來反對另一個國家；到處都會有地震和饑荒。這些都像臨產陣痛的開始。

民將攻民、國將攻國、隨在地震、饑饉、斯乃劬勞之始也、○

民將攻民、國亦攻國、地震、饑饉、變亂、隨在皆然、此災害之始也、

民將攻民、國將攻國、隨處有地震、亦有饑饉變亂、凡此乃災禍之始、

將見民與民爭、國與國鬥、饑饉地震、觸處皆然。此猶為苦痛之始耳。

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

Nation will fight against nation. Kingdom will fight against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in many places. People will go hungry. All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.

Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in many parts of the world, as well as famines. But this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

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

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are only the beginning of birth pains.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

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

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.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

The people cry out,“ We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!

One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world.( This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

And another horse, fiery red, came out, and the one who rode it was granted permission to take peace from the earth, so that people would butcher one another, and he was given a huge sword.

“ I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, brothers will fight with each other, as will neighbors, cities, and kingdoms.

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.

Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

The people of Damascus will lose heart and turn to flee. Panic will grip them. Pain and anguish will seize them like a woman in labor.

Jerusalem, why are you now shouting so loudly? Has your king disappeared? Has your wise leader been destroyed? Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the LORD will deliver you from the power of your enemies.

The king of Babylon will become paralyzed with fear when he hears news of their coming. Anguish will grip him, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another.

Now when they are saying,“ There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.

In fact, I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like that of a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, reaching out for help, saying,“ I am done in! My life is ebbing away before these murderers!”

The LORD who rules over all says,‘ Disaster will soon come on one nation after another. A mighty storm of military destruction is rising up from the distant parts of the earth.’

What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

“ This is what Hezekiah says:‘ This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.

On that day there will be great confusion from the LORD among them; they will seize each other and attack one another violently.