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.
KJV
ὅτι ἰδοὺ ἔρχονται ἡμέραι ἐν αἷς ἐροῦσιν· μακάριαι αἱ στεῖραι καὶ αἱ κοιλίαι αἳ οὐκ ἐγέννησαν, καὶ μαστοὶ οἳ οὐκ ἔθρεψαν.
Greek NT
Quoniam ecce venient dies in quibus dicent : Beatæ steriles, et ventres qui non genuerunt, et ubera quæ non lactaverunt.
Vulgate
For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
ASV
For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- αἱ — SBLGNT
- αἱ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἔθρεψαν — SBLGNT
- ἔθρεψαν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐθήλασαν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- Eccl 4:3 — Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- Hos 9:12 — Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Hos 9:14 — Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- Hos 13:16 — Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
- Job 27:14 — If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o
- 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.
- 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.
- Mark 13:17 — But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- 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!