Luke 21:23
"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
22For those are the days of vengeance and of fulfilling all that is written.
Cross References
Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be severely hurt; but he on whom it falls will be utterly crushed."
Mark 13:17And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!
Luke 19:43For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side.
1 Thessalonians 2:16for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them.
Hebrews 10:26For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve 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 →