Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Bible References

General references

Deuteronomy 28:56
The 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 2:19
ק QofArise, 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
on the corner of every street.
Lamentations 4:3
ג GimelEven jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches in the wilderness.
Hosea 9:14
Give them, Lord
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt
because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.
Matthew 24:19
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 21:23
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

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