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The Abomination of Desolation

Matthew 24:19

In 9 translations

BSB
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
KJV
And woe unto 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 nursing mothers 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 those that give suck in those days.
DRC
And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.
GNV
And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

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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Cross-references most cited first

  • Luke 23:29–30Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’ At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills,…
  • 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.
  • Deuteronomy 28:53–56Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you. The most gentle and refined man among…
  • Mark 13:17–18How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! Pray that this will not occur in the winter.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 2 Samuel 4:4And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell…
  • 2 Kings 15:16At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

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