Luke 23:29

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For behold, the days are coming during which they will say, Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have never nursed [babies]!

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than them both [I thought] is he who has not yet been born, who has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt and become desolate, for she rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

Matthew 24:19

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

Luke 11:27

Now it occurred that as He was saying these things, a certain woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, Blessed (happy and to be envied) is the womb that bore You and the breasts that You sucked!

Luke 23:28

But Jesus, turning toward them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.