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
Likewise, 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 2:19
(Qof) Get 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.
Lamentations 4:3
(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.
Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Lord -- what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!
Hosea 13:16
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 24:19
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
Luke 21:23
Woe 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 23:29
For 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!'

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