Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
16And let him that is in the field not turn back again in order to take up his garment.
18And pray all of you that your flight be not in the winter.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out yours heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Hosea 13:16Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Luke 21:23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon 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 →