Luke 21:23
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.
KJV
οὐαὶ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις· ἔσται γὰρ ἀνάγκη μεγάλη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ὀργὴ τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ,
Greek NT
Væ autem prægnantibus et nutrientibus in illis diebus ! erit enim pressura magna super terram, et ira populo huic.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- οὐαὶ — SBLGNT
- οὐαὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + δὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
- ὀργὴ — SBLGNT
- ὀργὴ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἐν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
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- 1Thess 2:16 — Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
- Dan 12:1 — And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that s
- Deut 28:56 — The tender and delicate woman among you, which 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, a
- Heb 10:26 — For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Hos 9:14 — Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- Jas 5:1 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
- Lam 4:10 — The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Luke 23:29 — For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
- Luke 23:29 — For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
- Mark 13:17 — But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- Matt 24:19 — And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- Matt 24:19 — And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- Num 33:56 — Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
- Zech 11:1 — Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.