Mark 13:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For 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.
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The 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, 57 And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
  • Lam 2:19-20 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:3-4 : 3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
  • Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has 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 open.
  • Matt 24:19-21 : 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days! 20 But pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 But 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 95%

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

    17Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.

    18And let him who is in the field not turn back to take his clothes.

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

    20But pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.

  • 89%

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

    21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of it depart out, and let not those who are in the countries enter into it.

    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.

  • 84%

    18And pray that your flight be not in the winter.

    19For in those days will be affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be.

  • 80%

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

    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.

  • 78%

    14But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let the reader understand,) then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains:

    15And let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house:

    16And let him who is in the field not turn back again to take up his garment.

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    30Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

    31In that day, he who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away: and he who is in the field, let him likewise not turn back.

  • 8And they will be afraid: pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in labor: they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • 2And she was with child, and she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

  • 3For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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    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,

    57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • 13The sorrows of a laboring woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • 12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • 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.

  • 24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

  • Isa 32:11-12
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    70%

    11Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.

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

  • 25Woe to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

  • 13And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

  • 12Now brother shall betray brother to death, and father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Jer 30:6-7
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    6Ask now, and see whether a man is in labor with a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale?

    7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

  • 8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be earthquakes in various places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

  • 10The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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

  • 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:

  • 14Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • 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,

  • 18Their bows will dash the young men to pieces; and they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye will not spare children.

  • 19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • 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.

  • 17Like a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

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

  • 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?

  • 6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, so that she might be nourished there for one thousand two hundred sixty days.