Luke 23:30

Then will they begin to say to the mountains, `Fall on us;' and to the hills, `Cover us.'

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

In Context

29For a time is coming when they will say, `Blessed are the women who never bore children, and the breasts which have never given nourishment.'

31For if they are doing these things in the case of the green tree, what will be done in that of the dry?"

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Cross References

Revelation 9:6And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades them.

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 →

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