Luke 21:23

²¹ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.

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

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.

²⁴ They 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.

²⁵ There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: Woe to those having in womb and to those nursing in those days! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people.

ÅB: Men ve de fruktsommelige, og dem som gir die, i de dager! for stor nød skal være på jorden, og vrede over dette folk,
OTB: Ve de som er gravide og de som ammer i de dager! Det skal være stor nød i landet og vrede over dette folket.
B1930: Men ve de fruktsommelige, og dem som gir die, i de dager! for stor nød skal være på jorden, og vrede over dette folk,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Matthew 24:19
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
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Mark 13:17
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
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Luke 23:29
Look, 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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Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Deuteronomy 28:56–57
The 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
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1 Peter 4:17
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?
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James 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
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1 Thessalonians 2:16
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.
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