Luke 21:23
But 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.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
22For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be fulfilled, that are written.
Cross References
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.
Matthew 21:44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
Mark 13:17And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.
Luke 19:43For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,
1 Thessalonians 2:16Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end. To fill up their sins... That is, to fill up the measure of their sins, after which God's justice would punish them. For the wrath of God is come upon them to the end... That is, to continue on them to the end.
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: If we sin wilfully... He speaks of the sin of wilful apostasy from the known truth; after which, as we can not be baptized again, we can not expect to have that abundant remission of sins, which Christ purchased by his death, applied to our souls in that ample manner as it is in baptism: but we have rather all manner of reason to look for a dreadful judgment; the more because apostates from the known truth, seldom or never have the grace to return to it.
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 →