Luke 23:29

New Living Translation

For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.

Hosea 13:16

The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords.”

Matthew 24:19

How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.

Luke 11:27

As he was speaking, a woman in the crowd called out, “God bless your mother—the womb from which you came, and the breasts that nursed you!”

Luke 23:28

But Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.