Luke 21:23
'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.
Cross References
Lamentations 4:10The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Matthew 21:44and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'
Mark 13:17'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;
Luke 19:43'Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them — to the end!
Hebrews 10:26For we — wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth — no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,
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 →