"There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues⁽¹⁾ in many places; in the sky terrors and great portents." (Luke 21:11 NEB).

"With all these things the birth-pangs (pangs of distress. NWT) of the new age begin." (Matt 24:7,8 NEB).

"And I saw, and, look! a pale horse; and the one seated upon it had the name Death. And Hades was closely following him. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague…" (From Rev 6:8 NWT).

"'Come out of her ("Babylon"), My people, lest you take part in her sins and share in her plagues…her plagues shall strike her in a single day -- pestilence*, bereavement, famine, and burning -- for mighty is the Lord God who has pronounced her doom!'" (From Rev 18:4,8 NEB).

"Then the seventh angel poured his bowl on the air; and out of the sanctuary came a loud voice from the throne, which said, 'It is over! And…Huge hailstones, weighing perhaps a hundredweight, fell on men from the sky; and they cursed God for the plague of hail, because that plague was so severe." (From Rev 16:17-19,21 NEB).

"Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet…There came flashes of lightning and peals of thunder, and earthquake, and a storm of hail." (From Rev 11:15,19 NEB).

(1) PLAGUE: An affliction regarded as a sign of Divine displeasure; a deadly pestilence*.