17But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! …
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. …
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-23)The Jews, in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, were hastening to their own ruin apace, both efficiently and meritoriously, were setting both God and man against them; see 1 Thess. 2:15. Now here we have a prediction of that ruin which came upon them within less than forty years after this: we had it before, Matt. 24:15 Observe, I. What is here foretold concerning it.…
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