Lucas 21:23

23 Como serão terríveis aqueles dias para as grávidas e para as que estiverem amamentando! Haverá grande aflição na terra e ira contra este povo.

Lucas 21:23 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 21:23

But woe unto them that are with-child
(See Gill on Matthew 24:19).

For there shall be great distress in the land;
of Judea. The Greek word (anagkh) , here used, properly signifies "necessity", but here intends afflictions and distress; in which sense it is often used by the Septuagint, as in ( Psalms 107:6 Psalms 107:13 Psalms 107:19 Psalms 107:28 ) ( 119:143 ) ( Jeremiah 9:15 ) and it is also by the Targumists adopted into their language, and used in the same sense ^F4: and indeed, the distress was very great, and such a time of tribulation, as was never known since the beginning of the world, nor never will be the like; what with the enemy without, and their seditions and divisions within, the robberies, murders, and famine, which prevailed and abounded, their miseries are not to be expressed:

and wrath upon this people;
of the Jews; even the wrath of God, as well as of man, which came upon them to the uttermost; and their own historian observes, that God, who had condemned the people, turned every way of salvation to their destruction ^F5.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Vid. Targum in Gen xxii. 14. & xxxviii. 25. & Targum Sheni in Esth. v. 1.
F5 Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 15.

Lucas 21:23 In-Context

21 Então os que estiverem na Judeia fujam para os montes, os que estiverem na cidade saiam, e os que estiverem no campo não entrem na cidade.

22 Pois esses são os dias da vingança, em cumprimento de tudo o que foi escrito.

23 Como serão terríveis aqueles dias para as grávidas e para as que estiverem amamentando! Haverá grande aflição na terra e ira contra este povo.

24 Cairão pela espada e serão levados como prisioneiros para todas as nações. Jerusalém será pisada pelos gentios, até que os tempos deles se cumpram.

25 “Haverá sinais no sol, na lua e nas estrelas. Na terra, as nações estarão em angústia e perplexidade com o bramido e a agitação do mar.