17 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 18 Pray that this will not occur in the winter. 19 For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
Mark 13:17–19
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Matthew 24:18–20
18 And let no one in the field return for his cloak. 19 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
Luke 21:22–24
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2 Esdras 13:15–17
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2 Esdras 15:13–15
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Luke 23:28–30
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Jeremiah 30:6–8
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2 Esdras 16:16–18
16 Just as an arrow which is shot by a mighty archer doesn’t return backward, even so the calamities that are sent out upon earth won’t return again. (WEB) 17 Woe is me! Woe is me! Who will deliver me in those days? (WEB) 18 The beginning of sorrows, when there will be great mourni… (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:38–40
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