Mark 13:17
And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 him that shall be in the field, not turn back to take up his garment.
18But pray ye, that these things happen not in winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.
Lamentations 4:10Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Luke 21:23But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon 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 →