Luke 21:23
Then woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land and great wrath upon this people.
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22For these are the days of retribution, so that all things may be fulfilled, which have been written.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10JOD. The hands of pitiable women have boiled their sons. They became their food in the grief of the daughter of my people.
Matthew 21:44And whoever will have fallen on this stone shall be broken, yet truly, on whomever it shall fall, it will crush him.”
Mark 13:17But woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days.
Luke 19:43For the days will overtake you. And your enemies will encircle you with a valley. And they will surround you and hem you in on every side.
1 Thessalonians 2:16They prohibit us to speak to the Gentiles, so that they may be saved, and thus do they continually add to their own sins. But the wrath of God will overtake them in the very end.
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin willingly, after receiving knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice remaining 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 →