Luke 21:26 “Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the eart…”

Luke 21:26

Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

World English Bible

men fainting for fear and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

American Standard Version

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Geneva Bible 1599

And mens hearts shall faile them for feare, and for looking after those thinges which shall come on the worlde: for the powers of heauen shall be shaken.

Darby Translation

men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Young's Literal Translation

men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Bible in Basic English

Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

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Cross references

“hearts”

Deuteronomy 28:65–67 Leviticus 26:36 Deuteronomy 28:32–34 Hebrews 10:26 Hebrews 10:27

Deuteronomy 28:65–67 · BSB

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Leviticus 26:36 · BSB

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and…

Deuteronomy 28:32–34 · BSB

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Hebrews 10:26 · BSB

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

Hebrews 10:27 · BSB

but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

“for the”

Matthew 24:29 2 Peter 3:10–12 Mark 13:25

Matthew 24:29 · BSB

Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ’

2 Peter 3:10–12 · BSB

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

Mark 13:25 · BSB

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

27At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

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