Mark 13:17
'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;
Young's Literal Translation
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 he who is in the field, let him not turn to the things behind, to take up his garment.
18and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter,
Cross References
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.
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.
Hosea 13:16Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!
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;
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 →