Luke 21:23
But 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.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22for these are days of avenging, that all the things that are written may be accomplished.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Matthew 21:44And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
Mark 13:17But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!
Luke 19:43for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
Hebrews 10:26For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any 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 →