Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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In Context
30Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
Cross References
Hosea 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 21:23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in 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 →