Luke 21:23
"Woe to women with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For sore anguish will come upon the land, and wrath upon all his people.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
22"For these are the days of vengeance and of fulfilment of all that is written.
Cross References
Matthew 21:44"He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but he upon whom it falls will be scattered as dust."
Mark 13:17And alas for the pregnant women, and for those that are nursing their infants in those days!
Luke 19:43"The time will come for you when your enemies will throw ramparts around you, and encompass you, and shut you in on every side, and raze you to the ground,
1 Thessalonians 2:16They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice 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 →