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Luke 21:23

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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 land, and wrath upon this people.

In Context

22For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

24And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

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Cross References

Lamentations 4:10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 21:44Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.

Mark 13:17And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

Luke 19:43For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

1 Thessalonians 2:16Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

Hebrews 10:26For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering 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 →

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