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Mark 13:19

17 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

18 Pray that this will not occur in the winter.

For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

20 If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.

21 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
KJV
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
WEB
For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
ASV
For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.
DARBY
for those days shall be distress such as there has not been the like since [the] beginning of creation which God created, until now, and never shall be;
BLB
for those days will be tribulation such as has not been from the beginning of creation that God created until now, and never shall be.
ÅB
for i de dager skal det være så stor en trengsel som ikke har vært inntil nå fra skapningens begynnelse, fra den tid da Gud skapte verden, og som heller ikke skal bli.
OTB
for de vil være dager med trengsel uten sidestykke fra begynnelsen av skapelsen, som Gud skapte, til nå, og aldri vil bli lik igjen.
B1930
for i de dager skal det være så stor en trengsel som ikke har vært inntil nu fra skapningens begynnelse, fra den tid da Gud skapte verden, og som heller ikke skal bli.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Daniel 12:1

    “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.

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  • Joel 2:2

    a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

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  • Matthew 24:21

    For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.

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  • Daniel 9:26

    Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

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  • Daniel 9:12

    You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

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  • Lamentations 1:12

    Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

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  • Luke 21:22–24

    For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

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  • Mark 10:6

    However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

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