Luke 21:22

For these are days of punishment, fulfilling all that's written.

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In The King James Version

For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

In Context

21Those who are in Judea should run away to the mountains, and those who are in Jerusalem should leave, and those who are the countryside shouldn't enter the city.

23How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing babies at that time! For terrible trouble is coming on the land and punishment against this people.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:15But if you don't obey the Lord your God by following carefully all his commandments and regulations I'm giving you today, then you will experience all the following curses and more:

Deuteronomy 32:34I've stored this all up; it's sealed in my vaults.

Psalms 69:22May the table set before them become a trap for them, a net that catches them, bringing punishment.

Isaiah 34:8For the Lord has a day of punishment, a year of retribution, for the trouble caused to Zion.

Isaiah 63:4For I decided this was the day of my vengeance; the year of my redemption has come.

Jeremiah 51:6Escape from Babylon! Run for your lives! Don't get caught up in her punishment and die, for this is the time when the Lord pays her back for her 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 →

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