Luke 21:23

In 9 translations

BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

KJV

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

WEB

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.

ASV

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.

LSV

And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

YLT

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

DBY

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

DRC

But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

GNV

But woe be to them that be with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes: for there shalbe great distresse in this land, and wrath ouer this people.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὐαὶ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις· ἔσται γὰρ ἀνάγκη μεγάλη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ὀργὴ τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ,

RP2018

Οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις· ἔσται γὰρ ἀνάγκη μεγάλη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ὀργὴ ἐν τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ.

TR-Boyd

Οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις· ἔσται γὰρ ἀνάγκη μεγάλη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ὀργὴ ἐν τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ.

SCR1894

ουαι δε ταις εν γαστρι εχουσαις και ταις θηλαζουσαις εν εκειναις ταις ημεραις εσται γαρ αναγκη μεγαλη επι της γης και οργη εν τω λαω τουτω

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• Mark 13:17How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
• Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
• Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
• Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Hebrews 10:26–31If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all…
• Deuteronomy 28:56–57The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter the afterbirth that…
• James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• 1 Peter 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
• 1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
• Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
• Matthew 21:41“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
• Matthew 21:44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
• Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
• Hebrews 9:12–17He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer…
• Hebrews 13:16And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

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