Luke 21:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ Alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Alas for those who are pregnant and for those who have babies which they are nursing in those days! For great misery and anguish and distress shall be upon the land and indignation and punishment and retribution upon this people.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ How terrible it will be at that time for women who are pregnant or for women who are nursing their children. There will be great agony on the earth and angry judgment on this people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Then woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land and great wrath upon this people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Luke 21:23 Cross References

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Daniel 8:19

He said, “Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation; for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.

Matthew 21:16

and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast brought perfect praise’?”

Matthew 21:41

They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

Matthew 21:44

Matthew 24:19

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

Mark 13:17

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

Luke 19:27

But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”

Luke 19:43

For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’

1 Corinthians 7:26

I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!

Hebrews 13:16

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?