21
Behold, provision will be so cheap upon earth that men will imagine that peace is assured for them, and then the calamities shall spring up on the earth -- the sword, famine, and great confusion.
19
Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish are sent as scourges for the correction of men.
20
Yet for all this they will not turn from their iniquities, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
21
Behold, provision will be so cheap upon earth that men will imagine that peace is assured for them, and then the calamities shall spring up on the earth -- the sword, famine, and great confusion.
22
For many of those who live on the earth shall perish by famine; and those who survive the famine shall die by the sword.
23
And the dead shall be cast out like dung, and there shall be no one to console them; for the earth shall be left desolate, and its cities shall be demolished.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.