'Woe' in the Bible

But woe to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

Woe to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

'Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;

'But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

'Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

and he said, 'And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

'Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

'Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

And he said unto the disciples, 'It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe to him through whom they come;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but woe to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'