Mark 13:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Luke 23:29 : 29 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.'
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 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.
  • Lam 2:19-20 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at 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, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. 20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:3-4 : 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse 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 bread, and no man breaks it to them.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
  • 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."
  • Matt 24:19-21 : 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! 20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, 21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
  • Luke 21:23 : 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.

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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 him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.

    18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

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

    20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

  • Luke 21:20-23
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    20 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

    21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

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

    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.

  • Mark 13:18-19
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    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 23:28-30
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    28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

    29 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.'

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

  • Mark 13:14-16
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    14 But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

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

    16 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

  • Luke 17:30-31
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    30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

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

  • Isa 13:8
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    8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

  • Rev 12:2
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    2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

  • 1 Thess 5:3
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    3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    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 13:13
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    13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.

  • Hos 9:12
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    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!

  • Luke 11:27
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    27 It 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!"

  • Mark 13:24
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    24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

  • Isa 32:11-12
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    11 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

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

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

  • Rev 12:13
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    13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

  • Mark 13:12
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    12 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Jer 30:6-7
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    6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

    7 Alas! 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.

  • Mark 13:8
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    8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Luke 17:35
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    35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."

  • Jer 16:3
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    3 For 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:

  • Hos 9:14
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    14 Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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

  • Isa 13:18
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    18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

  • Isa 51:19
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    19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

  • John 16:21
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    21 A 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.

  • Isa 26:17
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    17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

  • Luke 17:26
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    26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

  • Jer 13:21
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    21 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?

  • Rev 12:6
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    6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.