Luke 21:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.”
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“How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 21:23 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:56The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
- Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Matthew 21:41“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
- Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
- Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Mark 13:17How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
- Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
- Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
- Hebrews 9:12He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 10:26If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
- Hebrews 13:16And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
- James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
- 1 Peter 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
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