Luke 21:23

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
  • Heb 9:12-17 : 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it. 17 For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
  • Heb 10:26-31 : 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. 28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Matt 21:41 : 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
  • Mark 13:17 : 17 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
  • Luke 19:43 : 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

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  • Matt 24:19-21
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    19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

    20And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath:

    21for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

  • Mark 13:17-19
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    89%

    17But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

    18And pray ye that it be not in the winter.

    19For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.

  • Luke 21:20-22
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    83%

    20But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

    21Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein.

    22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

  • Luke 23:28-30
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    28But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

    29For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

    30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

  • Luke 21:24-25
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    24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

    25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;

  • Luke 19:43-44
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    43For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

    44and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • Jer 4:31
    72%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    71%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • Mark 13:8
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    8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

  • Jer 22:23
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    23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

  • Jer 30:6-7
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    6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

    7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

  • Isa 51:19
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    19These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

  • Isa 13:8
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    8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them] ; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.

  • Luke 6:25
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    25Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe [unto you], ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

  • Rev 12:2
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    2and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

  • Luke 21:10-11
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    10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

    11and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

  • Matt 23:36
    70%

    36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

  • John 16:21
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    21A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

  • 1 Thess 5:3
    70%

    3When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Matt 24:8
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    8But all these things are the beginning of travail.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Mark 13:14
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    14But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not (let him that readeth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:

  • Luke 21:35
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    35for [so] shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth.

  • Mic 4:10
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    10Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

  • Jer 14:16
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    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them--them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • Matt 2:18
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    18A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

  • Luke 21:6
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    6As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

  • Matt 10:21
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    21And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Luke 11:27
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    27And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

  • Hos 13:13
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    13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Isa 26:17
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    17Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

  • Matt 24:16
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    16then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:

  • Isa 32:12
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    12They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.