Luke 23:29
"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.’
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
28But Jesus turned to and said. "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me;
30"Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’
Cross References
Matthew 24:19"Alas for thee women who are with child, and for the nursing mothers in those days!
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.
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 →