Luke 21:23
But woe to the women with child, and to those having children at the breast, in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10The hands of tender-hearted women cooked their own children; They were their food, in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Mark 13:17And woe to the women with child, and to those with children at the breast, in those days!
Luke 19:43For the days will come upon thee, when thine enemies will cast up a mound about thee, and compass thee round, and shut thee in on every side,
1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from speaking to the gentiles that they may be saved,—to fill up their sins always! But the wrath is come upon them to the end.
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin willingly after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remaineth a 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 →