Luke 23:29
For see, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that did not bear, and the breasts that did not nurse.'
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30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'
Cross References
Hosea 9:12Though they have brought up children, 1 I will take them away so that none of them is left. 1 Woe to them when I turn away from them! 1
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days!
Luke 21:23Woe 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.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:27-32
The Crucifixion. 26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs… Read the whole commentary →