23 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
Luke 21:23
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Mark 13:16–18
16 And let no one in the field return for his cloak. 17 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 18 Pray that this will not occur in the winter.
Matthew 24:18–20
18 And let no one in the field return for his cloak. 19 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
Luke 23:28–30
28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nurs…
2 Esdras 13:15–17
15 Now show me also the interpretation of this dream. (WEB) 16 For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who will be left in those days! Much more woe to those who are not left! (WEB) 17 For those who were not left will be in heaviness, (WEB)
Book of Enoch 99:4–6
4 In those days the nations shall be stirred up, And the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction. (ENO) 5 And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish… (ENO) 6 … (ENO)
2 Esdras 16:16–18
16 Just as an arrow which is shot by a mighty archer doesn’t return backward, even so the calamities that are sent out upon earth won’t return again. (WEB) 17 Woe is me! Woe is me! Who will deliver me in those days? (WEB) 18 The beginning of sorrows, when there will be great mourni… (WEB)
Jeremiah 15:8–10
8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay. 9 The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her s…
Luke 19:42–44
42 and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will level you to the ground—y…
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