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 tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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,
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals offer the breast, they nurse their young ones, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Hosea 9:14
Give them?LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days.
Luke 21:23
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
Luke 23:29
For look, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'