Luke 23:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Song 1:5 : 5 I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
  • Song 2:7 : 7 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the does of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.
  • Song 3:5 : 5 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that you do not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.
  • Song 3:10 : 10 He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its covering of purple, its midst being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
  • Song 5:16 : 16 His mouth is most sweet: yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
  • Song 8:4 : 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken my love until he pleases.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Luke 23:27
    79%

    27And a great crowd of people followed Him, and of women who also mourned and lamented Him.

  • Luke 23:29-30
    2 verses
    78%

    29For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.

    30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

  • Luke 21:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

    23But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

  • Luke 19:41-44
    4 verses
    74%

    41And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

    42Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

    43For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side,

    44And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

  • Matt 2:18
    74%

    18In Ramah there was a voice heard, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were no more.

  • John 16:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

    21A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come: but as soon as she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a man has been born into the world.

  • Luke 7:13
    72%

    13And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.

  • Jer 9:20
    71%

    20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

  • Mark 13:17
    71%

    17But woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days!

  • Matt 24:19
    71%

    19But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!

  • Matt 23:36-38
    3 verses
    71%

    36Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

    38See, your house is left to you desolate.

  • Jer 31:15
    70%

    15Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

  • Luke 13:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

    34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent to you; how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

    35Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly I say to you, You shall not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

  • Isa 22:4
    70%

    4Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, do not labor to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • John 11:35
    69%

    35Jesus wept.

  • Jer 15:5
    69%

    5For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan you? or who shall turn aside to ask how you are?

  • Jer 4:31
    69%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Jer 9:18
    69%

    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

  • Luke 14:25
    68%

    25And great multitudes went with him: and he turned, and said to them,

  • John 11:33
    68%

    33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,

  • Luke 7:32
    68%

    32They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling to one another, and saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.

  • Luke 13:28
    68%

    28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

  • Luke 11:27
    68%

    27And it happened, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which you have nursed.

  • Deut 28:56
    68%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Matt 15:23
    67%

    23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us.

  • Zech 12:11
    67%

    11In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

  • Jer 16:3
    67%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Isa 32:12
    67%

    12They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • Luke 23:48
    67%

    48And all the people who came together to that sight, observing what had been done, beat their breasts and returned.

  • Lam 2:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers' bosom.

  • Matt 11:17
    67%

    17And saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned for you, and you have not lamented.

  • Ezek 27:30
    67%

    30And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Gal 4:27
    67%

    27For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.'

  • Jer 13:21
    67%

    21What will you say when he shall punish you? For you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall sorrows not take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

  • Luke 21:20
    67%

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

  • Luke 8:52
    67%

    52And all wept, and mourned for her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.

  • Mic 4:9
    67%

    9Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like a woman in labor.

  • Isa 30:19
    66%

    19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.

  • Lam 1:16
    66%

    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • Jer 14:17
    66%

    17Therefore, you shall speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.'