Mark 13:17
And woe to the women with child, and to those with children at the breast, in those days!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
16and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment.
18And pray that it may not be in winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry aloud in the night at the beginning of the watches! Pour out thy heart like water before the face of Jehovah! Lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy young children, That faint for hunger at the head of all the streets!
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.
Hosea 13:16Samaria shall suffer for her guilt, For she hath rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword; Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child shall be ripped up.
Luke 21:23But 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;
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 →