Luke 23:29

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
  • Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."
  • Mark 13:17-19 : 17 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! 18 Pray that your flight won't be in the winter. 19 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
  • Luke 21:23-24 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Deut 28:53-57 : 53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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 who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
  • Hos 9:12-16 : 12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. 14 Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 "All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels. 16 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 24:19
    81%

    19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

  • Luke 21:22-23
    2 verses
    81%

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

    23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

  • Mark 13:17
    80%

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

  • Luke 23:28
    78%

    28But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

  • Luke 11:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"

    28But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

  • Luke 23:30
    76%

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

  • Gal 4:27
    75%

    27For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

  • Isa 32:10-12
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    73%

    10For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come.

    11Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

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

  • Hos 9:14
    73%

    14Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Exod 23:26
    72%

    26No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • Isa 54:1
    71%

    1"Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    71%

    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

  • Jer 16:3
    71%

    3For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Deut 28:56-57
    2 verses
    71%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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 who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Hos 9:12
    71%

    12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Matt 23:38-39
    2 verses
    70%

    38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

    39For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

  • Luke 13:35
    70%

    35Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

  • Luke 19:43-44
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    43For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

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    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."

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    70%

    18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

    19These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

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    69%

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  • Isa 65:23
    69%

    23They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.

  • Deut 28:41
    69%

    41You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

  • Prov 30:16
    69%

    16Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

  • Matt 23:36
    69%

    36Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

  • Isa 66:11
    69%

    11that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory."

  • Luke 6:21
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    21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  • Matt 2:18
    69%

    18"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are no more."

  • Jer 31:29
    69%

    29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

  • Jer 15:9
    69%

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  • John 16:21
    68%

    21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

  • Lam 4:10
    68%

    10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 14:16
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  • Jer 31:15
    68%

    15Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

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    68%

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  • Deut 7:14
    68%

    14You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

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