"But alas for you who are rich, for you have had your comfort!

"Alas for you who have plenty to eat now, for you will be hungry! "Alas for you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep!

"Alas for you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is the way their forefathers treated the false prophets!

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

But alas for you Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny herb, and disregard justice and the love of God. But you should have observed these, without neglecting the others.

Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.

Alas for you! For you are like unmarked graves which men tread upon without knowing it."

But he said, "Yes, alas for you experts in the Law too! For you load men with burdens they can hardly carry, and you will not touch them yourselves with a single finger.

Alas for you! For you build monuments for the prophets, whom your forefathers killed.

Alas for you experts in the Law! For you have taken the key to the door of knowledge, but you have not entered it yourselves, and you have kept out those who tried to enter."

And he said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that hindrances should arise, but alas for the man who causes them!

But alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies, for there will be great misery in the land and anger at this people.

For the Son of Man is going his way, as it has been decreed, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!"