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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.

But {G1161} woe {G3759} unto {G1722} them that are with child {G1064}{G2192}, and {G2532} to them that give suck {G2337}, in {G1722} those {G1565} days {G2250}! for {G1063} there shall be {G2071} great {G3173} distress {G318} in {G1909} the land {G1093}, and {G2532} wrath {G3709} upon {G1722} this {G5129} people {G2992}.

What a terrible time it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress in the Land and judgment on the people.

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.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Luke 23:29 (4 votes)

    For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

  • Matthew 24:19 (4 votes)

    And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Lamentations 4:10 (4 votes)

    The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Mark 13:17 (4 votes)

    But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Deuteronomy 28:56 (3 votes)

    The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Deuteronomy 28:57 (3 votes)

    And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:16 (3 votes)

    Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.