29 (A)For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin (B)‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’ 31 (C)For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”

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29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’(A) 30 Then

“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
    and to the hills, “Cover us!”’[a](B)

31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:30 Hosea 10:8