Luke 21:23
Good News Translation
How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people;

Contemporary English Version
It will be an awful time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children! Everywhere in the land people will suffer horribly and be punished.

New American Bible
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for a terrible calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon this people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

woe.

Luke 23:29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

Deuteronomy 28:56,57 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter, . . .

Lamentations 4:10 Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Hebrews 9:12-17 Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. . . .

Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.

Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Mark 13:17 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

great.

Luke 19:27,43 But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither and kill them before me. . . .

Matthew 21:41,44 They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit in due season. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

Hebrews 10:26-31 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: . . .

James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

Context
The Destruction of Jerusalem
22For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written. 23But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled.…
Cross References
Daniel 8:19
And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.

Matthew 21:16
And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Luke 23:29
For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.

1 Corinthians 7:26
I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

Luke 21:22
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