Matthew 24:8 Cross References - NSB

⁸ »These things are the beginning of birth pains (Greek: odin': in the throws of pain, such as childbirth).

¹⁸ »‘If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins. ¹⁹ »‘I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement. ²⁰ »‘Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. ²¹ »‘If you act with hostility against me and are unwilling to obey me I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. ²² »‘I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children. They will destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted. ²³ »‘If this discipline does not help and you still resist, ²⁴ »‘I will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins. ²⁵ »‘I will bring war on you to get revenge for my promise you rejected. When you gather in your cities, I will send plagues on you and you will fall under the control of your enemy. ²⁶ »‘I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry. ²⁷ »‘If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me, ²⁸ »‘I will resist you with great fury. I will discipline you seven times for your sins. ²⁹ »‘You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

⁵⁹ »If so, Jehovah will strike you and your descendants with unimaginable plagues. They will be terrible continuing plagues. They will be severe and lingering diseases.

¹² The Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away. His hand (power) is still stretched out (extended).

¹⁷ That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness (foolishness) (vileness). In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still (ready to apply his power).

²¹ Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, Ephraim will feed on Manasseh, and both will devour Judah. But even then Jehovah’s anger will not be satisfied. His hand is still poised to unleash his power.

⁴ There is nothing left but to crouch among prisoners and to fall with those who are killed. Even after all this, his anger will not disappear. His hand is stretched out (he is still ready to use his power).

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.

¹⁷ For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins with us first what will it be like in the end for those who do not obey the good news of God? ¹⁸ If the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinners appear?