Mark 13:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!”
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BSBPD
“How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Mark 13:17 — 9 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 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- 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.
- Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
- 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!’
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