New Revised Standard Version
They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.

Contemporary English Version
Nations were destroying each other, and cities were wiping out other cities, because God was causing trouble and unrest everywhere.

New American Bible
Nation crushed nation and city crushed city, for God overwhelmed them with every kind of distress.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

nation

2 Chronicles 12:15 Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books of Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded: and there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.

2 Chronicles 13:17 And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.

Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows.

Luke 21:9,10 And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified. These things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently. . . .

destroyed [heb] beaten in pieces

2 Chronicles 33:11 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:17 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands.

Judges 2:14 And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:

Psalm 106:41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Amos 3:6 Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?

Luke 21:22-24 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written. . . .