Luke 21:25

And there will be otot (miraculous signs) in the shemesh (sun) and the levanah (moon) and the kochavim (stars), and upon the earth there will be dismay among the Goyim, in perplexity at the sound of the sea and the waves;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

In Context

24And they will fall by the edge of the cherev (sword) and they will all be led captive into the Golus, and Yerushalayim will be trampled down by the Goyim, until the times of the Goyim are fulfilled. + 21:24 Isa 5:5; 63:18; Dan 8:13

26Bnei Adam will be fainting from pachad (terror) and from expectation of the things coming upon the Olam Hazeh, for the kochot (powers) of the heavens will be shaken.

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Cross References

Psalms 46:3Therefore we will not fear, 1 though eretz be shaken, 1 and though the harim (mountains) fall 1 into the lev yamim (heart of the seas); 1

Isaiah 5:30And in Yom Hahu they shall roar against them 1 like the roaring of the sea; 1 and if one look unto ha'aretz, 1 hinei, choshech and tzar (distress), 1 and the ohr groweth dark with clouds.

Isaiah 13:13Therefore I will shake Shomayim, 1 and Ha'Aretz (the Earth) shall move out of her makom (place), 1 in the evrat Hashem Tzva'os, 1 and in His Yom Charon Af. 1

Isaiah 24:23Then the levanah (moon) shall be disgraced, 1 and the chammah (sun) ashamed, 1 when Hashem Tzva'os shall reign 1 in Har Tziyon, and in Yerushalayim, 1 and before His Zekenim gloriously.

Jeremiah 4:23I beheld ha'aretz, and, 1 hinei, it was tohu vavohu; + 4:23 Gn 1:2 1 and HaShomayim — there was no ohr. 1

Daniel 12:1And at that time shall Micha'el stand, the Sar HaGadol who standeth over the banim of thy people, and there shall be an et tzarah (time of tribulation), such as has not been from the existence of a nation to that time; and in that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the Sefer.

Matthew Henry on Luke 21:21-29

Judgments Predicted. 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the… Read the whole commentary →

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