Mark 13:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁷ [It will be] too bad for those who are pregnant and those who are nursing babies in those days.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And alas for those who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Common English Bible

¹⁷ How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant and for women who are nursing their children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days.

Mark 13:17 Cross References

Luke 23:29

For look, the time will come when people will be saying, ‘Those [women] who are without children and who have never given birth or nursed babies are [truly] happy!’

Luke 21:23

It will be too bad for pregnant women and those who are nursing [babies] in those days! For there will be great distress in this land [i.e., Judea, and especially Jerusalem], and raging anger [will be shown] against these people [i.e., by the Roman armies].

Matthew 21:16

They said to Jesus, “Do you hear what these [children] are saying [about you]?” Jesus answered them, “Yes, [I do]. Have you not read [in Psa. 8:2] ‘You have ordained that praise would come from the mouths of infants and small children?’”

Mark 13:16

The person who is in a field [i.e., doing farm work] should not return [to his house] to get his coat [even].

Mark 13:18

And pray that [your flight] will not be in the winter.