Luke 21:22

for these are days of avenging, that all the things that are written may be accomplished.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

In Context

21Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;

23But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.

Deuteronomy 32:34Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

Psalms 69:22Let their table become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap;

Isaiah 34:8For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come.

Jeremiah 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence.

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 →

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