Matthew 24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
KJV
οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.
Greek NT
Væ autem prægnantibus et nutrientibus in illis diebus !
Vulgate
But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
ASV
And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γαστήρ
gaster
noun · 9×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θηλάζω
thelazo
verb · 5×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὐαί
ouai
noun · 46×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. But whom does He here mean by the elect? The believers that were shut up in the midst of them. For that Jews may not say that because of the gospel, and the worship of Christ, these ills took place, He shows, that so far from the believers being the cause, if it had not been for them, all had perished utterly. For if God had permitted the war to be protracted, not so much as…
Cross-references
- Deut 28:53 — And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall d
- 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 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.
- Lam 4:3 — Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- 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.
- Lev 26:29 — And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
- 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.
- 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!
- Zech 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the resid