Luke 23:29
For, behold, days are coming in which they shall say: Happy the barren, and wombs that never bore, and breasts that never gave suck.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall on us; and to the hills: Cover us.
Cross References
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23Woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck, in those days! For there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:27-32
The Crucifixion. 26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs… Read the whole commentary →