Mark 13:17

In 9 translations

BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

KJV

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

WEB

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

ASV

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

LSV

And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;

YLT

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days;

DBY

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

DRC

And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.

GNV

Then wo shalbe to the that are with child, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.

RP2018

Οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.

TR-Boyd

Οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.

SCR1894

ουαι δε ταις εν γαστρι εχουσαις και ταις θηλαζουσαις εν εκειναις ταις ημεραις

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• 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!’
• 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.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
• Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
• Matthew 24:19–21How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath. For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of…
• 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…
• Lamentations 4:3–4Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness. The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little…
• Lamentations 2:19–20Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the…
• Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

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