Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mark 13:17 in other translations
| BSB | How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! |
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| WEB | But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! |
| ASV | But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! |
| YLT | ‘And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; |
| DARBY | But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! |
| BBE | And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days. |
| Webster | But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days. |
What does Mark 13:17 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 13:14-23
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…
Mark 13:17 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 13:17
- Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
- Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
- Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
- Matthew 24:19-21
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- Lamentations 4:3-4
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
- Deuteronomy 28:56-57
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon 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, And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
- Lamentations 2:19-20
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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Context
- Mark 13:16
And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
- Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
- Mark 13:18
And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Mark 13:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas ¡ay de las preñadas, y de las que criaren en aquellos días! |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais malheur à celles qui sont enceintes et à celles qui allaitent en ces jours-là! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wehe aber den Schwangeren und den Säugenden in jenen Tagen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Væ autem prægnantibus et nutrientibus in illis diebus. |