Luke 21:23
How 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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22For these are days of punishment, fulfilling all that's written.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10The hands of loving women have cooked their own children to eat during the destruction of Jerusalem.
Matthew 21:44Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken, but it will completely crush anyone it falls upon.”
Mark 13:17How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing at that time!
Luke 19:43The time is coming upon you when your enemies will besiege you, building ramps to attack you, encircling you and closing you in from every side.
1 Thessalonians 2:16trying to prevent us from speaking to the other nations to prevent them from being saved. They're always sinning to the maximum extent, but for them full judgment has arrived!
Hebrews 10:26For if we deliberately go on sinning after we've understood the truth, there's no longer any sacrifice for 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 →