Mark 13:17

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Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
  • Lam 2:19-20 : 19 ק(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children’s lives; they are fainting from hunger at every street corner. 20 ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
  • Lam 4:3-4 : 3 ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness. 4 ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O LORD– what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!
  • Hos 13:16 : 16 (14:1) Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground– their pregnant women will be ripped open.
  • Matt 24:19-21 : 19 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! 20 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

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  • Matt 24:16-20
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    16“then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

    17The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,

    18and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

    19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

    20Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

  • Luke 21:20-23
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    20The Desolation of Jerusalem“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

    21Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

    22because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

    23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

  • Mark 13:18-19
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    18Pray that it may not be in winter.

    19For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

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

    29For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

    30Then they will begin to say to the mountains,‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills,‘Cover us!’

  • Mark 13:14-16
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    78%

    14The Abomination of Desolation“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be”(let the reader understand),“then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

    15The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

    16The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

  • Luke 17:30-31
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    30It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

    31On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

  • Isa 13:8
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    8They panic– cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.

  • Rev 12:2
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    2She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth.

  • 1 Thess 5:3
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    3Now when they are saying,“There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

    57and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

  • Luke 11:27
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    27As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him,“Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!”

  • Mark 13:24
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    24The Arrival of the Son of Man“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;

  • Isa 32:11-12
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    11Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves– put sackcloth on your waist!

    12Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

  • Luke 6:25
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    25“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

  • Rev 12:13
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    13Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

  • Mark 13:12
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    12Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

  • Jer 30:6-7
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    6Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?

    7Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.

  • Mark 13:8
    70%

    8For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

  • Lam 4:10
    70%

    10י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

  • Luke 17:35
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    35There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

  • Hos 9:14
    69%

    14Give them, O LORD– what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!

  • Luke 19:43
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    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

  • Isa 13:18
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    18Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

  • Isa 51:19
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    19These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?

  • John 16:21
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    21When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

  • Isa 26:17
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    17As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O LORD.

  • Luke 17:26
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    26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

  • Jer 13:21
    69%

    21What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.

  • Rev 12:6
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    6and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.