Mark 13:17

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How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter. 57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.
  • Lam 2:19-20 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the start of the night watches; pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner. 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:3-4 : 3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
  • Matt 24:19-21 : 19 Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! 20 Pray that your escape may not happen in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, and never will happen again.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and nursing in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 24:16-20
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    95%

    16'then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.'

    17'Let no one on the housetop come down to take anything out of their house.'

    18And let the one who is in the field not turn back to get their cloak.

    19Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

    20Pray that your escape may not happen in winter or on the Sabbath.

  • Luke 21:20-23
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    89%

    20When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.

    21Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside the city must leave it, and those in the countryside must not enter it.

    22For these are days of vengeance, so that all that is written may be fulfilled.

    23Woe to those who are pregnant and nursing in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

  • Mark 13:18-19
    2 verses
    84%

    18Pray that this will not happen in winter.

    19For those days will be a time of tribulation unlike anything that has occurred from the beginning of creation, which God made, until now, and will never occur again.

  • Luke 23:28-30
    3 verses
    80%

    28But Jesus turned to them and said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

    29For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

    30Then they will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

  • Mark 13:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be, as spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

    15Let the one who is on the rooftop not go down or enter the house to take anything out.

    16And let the one who is in the field not turn back to get their cloak.

  • Luke 17:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    30It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

    31On that day, no one who is on the housetop with possessions inside should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should turn back for anything.

  • Isa 13:8
    73%

    8They will be terrified; pain and anguish will grip them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at each other in dismay, their faces aflame.

  • Rev 12:2
    73%

    2She was pregnant and cried out in labor, in the agony of giving birth.

  • 1 Thess 5:3
    73%

    3While people are saying, "Peace and safety," sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    72%

    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

    57She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.

  • Hos 13:13
    72%

    13The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Hos 9:12
    72%

    12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

  • Luke 11:27
    71%

    27As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, 'Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts that nursed You!'

  • Mark 13:24
    70%

    24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;

  • Isa 32:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.

    12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines.

  • Luke 6:25
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    25Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

  • Rev 12:13
    70%

    13When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

  • Mark 13:12
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    12Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

  • Jer 30:6-7
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    6Ask now and see: Can a man give birth? Why then do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, and every face turned pale?

    7Alas! That day is great, so that there is none like it. It is a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved from it.

  • Mark 13:8
    70%

    8Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

  • Lam 4:10
    70%

    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Luke 17:35
    69%

    35Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.

  • Jer 16:3
    69%

    3For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Hos 9:14
    69%

    14Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

  • Luke 19:43
    69%

    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

  • Isa 13:18
    69%

    18Their bows will strike down the young men; they will show no mercy to the offspring of the womb, nor will they pity children.

  • Isa 51:19
    69%

    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • John 16:21
    69%

    21When a woman is in labor, she has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

  • Isa 26:17
    69%

    17As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.

  • Luke 17:26
    69%

    26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

  • Jer 13:21
    69%

    21What will you say when He appoints leaders over you, those you taught to be rulers? Will not pain seize you like a woman in labor?

  • Rev 12:6
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    6The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God to be taken care of for 1,260 days.