Matthew 24:19 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁹ It will be too bad for those who are pregnant and who are nursing babies in those days.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And alas for the women who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Common English Bible

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ So then, woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days.

Matthew 24:19 Cross References

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?’”

Matthew 24:18

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

Matthew 24:20

And pray that it will not be in the winter or on a Sabbath day when you will have to flee [from the city]. [Note: Jewish Sabbath day restrictions on travel (only three-fifths of a mile) and city gate closures would make leaving the city nearly impossible].