Luke 21:23

²¹ Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

²² For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

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.

²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

²⁵ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

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
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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Luke 23:29
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.
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Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Deuteronomy 28:56–57
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,
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1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
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James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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1 Thessalonians 2:16
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.
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