Mark 13:17
But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
16Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
18Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands towards him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
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 Mark 13:15-24
The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. 14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give… Read the whole commentary →