Christian Standard Bible
Mark 13:17
17Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
Mark 13:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- New International Version (NIV)How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
- English Standard Version (ESV)And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
- New King James Version (NKJV)But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Context of Mark 13:17
15A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house, 16and a man in the field must not go back to get his coat. Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days! 18“Pray it won’t happen in winter. 19For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of creation until now and never will be again.
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οὐαὶ δὲ ταῖς ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Mark 13:17
- Deuteronomy 28:56The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
- Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord’s presence. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger at the head of every street.
- Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches in the wilderness.
- Hosea 9:14Give them, Lord — What should you give? Give them a womb that miscarries and breasts that are dry!
- Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- Matthew 24:19Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
- Luke 21:23Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the women without children, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!’
Commentaries on Mark 13:17
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-23Verses 14-23 The Jews in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, hastened their own ruin apace. Here we have a prediction of that ruin which came upon them within less than forty years after this. Such destruction and desolation, that the like cannot be found in any history. Promises of power to persevere, and cautions against falling away, well agree with each other. But the more we consider these things, the more we shall see…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17The suffering of the weakest (pregnant and nursing mothers) shows that the coming disaster would be severe. On that day, the joy of being a mother would be accompanied by terrible trouble (see Luke 1:25, 57–59).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. But woe to them--or, "alas for them." that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days--in consequence of the aggravated suffering which those conditions would involve.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Mark 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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