Luke 21:22

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

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For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

In Context

21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

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.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.

Deuteronomy 32:34“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up amongst my treasures?

Psalms 69:22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

Jeremiah 51:6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense.

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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