New English Translation
Mark 13:17
17Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies 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
15The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house. 16The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! 18Pray that it may not be in winter. 19For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.
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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 28:56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
- Lamentations 2:19Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children’s lives; they are fainting at every street corner. ר (Resh)
- Lamentations 4:3Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert. ד (Dalet)
- Hosea 9:14Give them, O Lord – what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!
- Hosea 13:16(14:1) Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground – their pregnant women will be ripped open.
- Matthew 24:19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
- Luke 21:23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, 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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