There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
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- KJV And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
- BSB There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
- ESV There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
- NKJV And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
- NASB and there will be massive earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrible sights and great signs from heaven.
- NLT There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and plagues in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs from heaven.
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Cross-references · 2
- Matt 24:29–30But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
- Luke 21:25–27There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
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