Mark 13:17
But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
16and let the man who is in the field not turn back for the things behind, to take his cloak.
18And pray ye that your flight may not be in winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of LORD. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
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.
Hosea 13:16Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Luke 21:23But 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.
Matthew Henry on Mark 13:15-24
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give… Read the whole commentary →