Mark 13:17
And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.
Bible in Basic English
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 not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.
18And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Lamentations 4:10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Luke 21:23It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on 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 →