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Mark 13:17
17How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
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!
- 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!
- New Living Translation (NLT)How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.
Context of Mark 13:17
15Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out. 16Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 18Pray that this will not take place in winter, 19because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled 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 gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter
- Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.
- Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.
- Hosea 9:14Give them, Lord— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
- Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”
- Matthew 24:19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
- Luke 21:23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, 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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