Luke 21:23 “How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For…”

Luke 21:23

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

But woe be to them that be with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes: for there shalbe great distresse in this land, and wrath ouer this people.

Darby Translation

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

Young's Literal Translation

'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;

Bible in Basic English

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

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Cross references

“woe”

Luke 23:29 Lamentations 4:10 Matthew 24:19 Mark 13:17 Hebrews 9:12–17 Hebrews 13:16

Luke 23:29 · BSB

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

Lamentations 4:10 · BSB

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 24:19 · BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Mark 13:17 · BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Hebrews 9:12–17 · BSB

He 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 13:16 · BSB

And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

“great”

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Hebrews 10:26–31 James 5:1 1 Peter 4:17 Luke 19:27 Luke 19:43

1 Thessalonians 2:16 · BSB

hindering 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 10:26–31 · BSB

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

James 5:1 · BSB

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

1 Peter 4:17 · BSB

For 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?

Luke 19:27 · BSB

And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”

Luke 19:43 · BSB

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Read Luke 21