Luke 21:23
Woe to them who are pregnant and to them who are nursing in those days! For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.
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22For these are days of vengeance, so that all the things that are written will be fulfilled.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; 1 they became their food during the time 1 when the daughter of my people was being destroyed. 1
Matthew 21:44Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces. But anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Mark 13:17But woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days!
Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade around you, and surround you, and press in on you from every side.
1 Thessalonians 2:16They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles for them to be saved. The result is that they always fill up their own sins. Wrath must come on them in the end.
Hebrews 10:26For if we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice for sins no longer exists.
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 →