Luke 23:29
Because indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, even the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
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In Context
30Then they will 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 pregnant and to those who are nursing a baby in those days!
Luke 21:23But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days! There will be great distress in 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 →