Luke 21:23
But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.
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In Context
22Because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all things that are written.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Matthew 21:44And he who falls on this stone will be shattered, but on whomever it may fall, it will grind him to dust.
Mark 13:17But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days.
Luke 19:43Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side.
1 Thessalonians 2:16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, in order to fill up their sins always. But wrath came upon them finally.
Hebrews 10:26For when we sin willfully after taking the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:21-29
Judgments Predicted. 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the… Read the whole commentary →