Mark 13:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.

Mark 13:17 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.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord— what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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’?”

Mark 13:16

and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.

Mark 13:18

Pray that it may not happen in winter.

Luke 21:23

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;

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!’