8For 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.
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All these are the beginning of sorrows.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-13)Our Lord Jesus, in reply to their question, sets himself, not so much to satisfy their curiosity as to direct their consciences; leaves them still in the dark concerning the times and seasons , which the father has kept in his own power , and which it was not for them to know ; but gives them the cautions which were needful, with reference to the events that should now shortly come to pass. I. The…
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