Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Cross References
Hosea 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Matthew 24:19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto 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 →