Luke 21:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
  • Heb 9:12-17 : 12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. 13 For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: 14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God? 15 And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage. 16 Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it. 17 For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?
  • Heb 10:26-31 : 26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, 27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? 30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people. 31 We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter; 57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Matt 21:41 : 41 They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
  • Mark 13:17 : 17 And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.
  • Luke 19:43 : 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

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  • Matt 24:19-21
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    19 But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

    20 And say a prayer that your flight may not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.

    21 Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

  • Mark 13:17-19
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    17 And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.

    18 And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter.

    19 For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.

  • Luke 21:20-22
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    20 But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

    21 Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

    22 For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

  • Luke 23:28-30
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    28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.

    29 For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

    30 And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.

  • Luke 21:24-25
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    24 And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

    25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;

  • Luke 19:43-44
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    43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

    44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

  • Jer 4:31
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    31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

    57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Mark 13:8
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    8 Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

  • Jer 22:23
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    23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

  • Jer 30:6-7
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    6 Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

    7 Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

  • Isa 51:19
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    19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Isa 13:8
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    8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • Luke 6:25
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    25 Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

  • Rev 12:2
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    2 And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

  • Luke 21:10-11
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    10 Then he said to them, Nation will be moved against nation and kingdom against kingdom:

    11 There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.

  • Matt 23:36
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    36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

  • John 16:21
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    21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

  • 1 Thess 5:3
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    3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Matt 24:8
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    8 But all these things are the first of the troubles.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Mark 13:14
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    14 But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be (let this be clear to the reader), then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains:

  • Luke 21:35
    69%

    35 For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

  • Mic 4:10
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    10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

  • Jer 14:16
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    16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

  • Matt 2:18
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    18 In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

  • Luke 21:6
    68%

    6 As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.

  • Matt 10:21
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    21 And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

  • Luke 11:27
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    27 And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.

  • Jer 13:21
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    21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

  • Hos 13:13
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    13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Hos 9:12
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    12 Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

  • Isa 26:17
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    17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

  • Matt 24:16
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    16 Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains:

  • Isa 32:12
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    12 Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;