Mark 13:17
How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing at that time!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
16Those who are out in the fields—don't go home to get a coat.
18Pray that this won't happen during the winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Get up and cry out as the night begins. Pour out your sad thoughts like water before the Lord. Hold up your hands to him in prayer for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger at every street corner.
Lamentations 4:10The hands of loving women have cooked their own children to eat during the destruction of Jerusalem.
Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria will have to bear the consequences of their guilt, because they rebelled against their God. They will be slaughtered by the sword; their children will be dashed to the ground; their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Luke 21:23How 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.
Matthew Henry on Mark 13:15-24
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give… Read the whole commentary →