For nation shall rise against nation,.... The nations of the world one against another, and the Romans against the Jews, and the Jews against them:and kingdom against kingdom; which is a synonymous phrase with the former, and what the Jews call, twnwv twlm, "different words", expressing the same thing, often used in their commentaries:and there shall be earthquakes in divers places; of the world:and there shall be famines: especially in Judea, as in the times of Claudius Caesar, and at the siege of Jerusalem:and troubles; public ones of various sorts, as tumults, seditions, murders, &c.
This word is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions.