Mark 13:17
15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- KJV
- But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- WEB
- But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!
- ASV
- But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
- DARBY
- But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!
- BLB
- And woe to those having in womb and to those nursing in those days!
- ÅB
- Ve de fruktsommelige og dem som gir die, i de dager!
- OTB
- Hvor fryktelig det vil være for dem som er gravide og ammer spedbarn i de dager!
- B1930
- Ve de fruktsommelige og dem som gir die, i de dager!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextLamentations 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.
Read in contextHosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Read in contextLuke 21:23
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.
Read in contextMatthew 24:19–21
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Read in contextLamentations 4:3–4
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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,
Read in contextLamentations 2:19–20
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
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