Matthew 24:19
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
“And woe unto 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 Matthew 24:19 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- 2 Samuel 4:4And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
- 2 Kings 15:16At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
- 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 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.
- Mark 13:17How 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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