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.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Go to now, {ye} rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon {you}.

For the time {is come} that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if {it} first {begin} at us, what shall the end {be} of them that obey not the gospel of God?

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon 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,

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay {them} before me.

For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption {for us}.

And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out {his} vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation {even} to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

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.

Moreover it shall come to pass, {that} I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. {miscarrying: Heb. that casteth the fruit}

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: {of fierce...: Heb. strong of face}

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, {I say}, that {it is} good for a man so to be. {distress: or, necessity}

And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as {it is} this day.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.