Luke 21:23

And woe to them, that be with child, and nourishing [or nursing] in those days; for a great dis-ease [or pressure] shall be on the earth (or in the land), and wrath to this people.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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 land, and wrath upon this people.

In Context

22For these be the days of vengeance, (so) that all (the) things that be written, be fulfilled.

24And they shall fall by the sharpness of (the) sword, and they shall be led (away as) prisoners [or led captive] into all folks; and Jerusalem shall be defouled of heathen men, till the times of (the) nations be fulfilled. (And they shall fall by the sharpness of the sword, and they shall be led away captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the nations be fulfilled.)

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Cross References

Lamentations 4:10The hands of merciful women seethed their children; they were made the meats of those women in the sorrow of the daughter of my people. (The hands of merciful women boiled their own children; they were made the food for those women in the horror of the wounding of my people.)

Matthew 21:44And he that shall fall on this stone, shall be broken; but on whom it shall fall, it shall bruise him [or it shall pound him] all to pieces.

Mark 13:17But woe to them that be with child, and nourishing [or nursing] in those days.

Luke 19:43But days shall come in thee [or For days shall come to thee], and thine enemies shall environ thee with a pale, and they shall go about thee, and make thee strait on all sides (or and make thee narrow, or hemmed in, on every side),

1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to heathen men, that they be made safe, that they [full-]fill their sins (for)evermore; for the wrath of God came on them into the end. (forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, so that they can be saved, so that they fill their sins full forevermore; but God’s wrath hath come upon them in the end.)

Hebrews 10:26For why now a sacrifice for sins is not left to us, that sin willfully, after that we have taken the knowing of truth. (Because now there is no longer any sacrifice for sins for us, we who sin willingly, or with our free will, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth.)

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 →

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