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29 Because behold— days are coming during which they will say, ‘Blessed[a] are the barren, and[b] the wombs which did not bear and breasts which did not feed[c]’. 30 At-that-time they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’, and to the hills, ‘Cover us’. 31 Because if they are doing these things in-the-case-of the wet wood[d], what will happen in-the-case-of the dry[e]?”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:29 Or, Fortunate.
  2. Luke 23:29 Or, even.
  3. Luke 23:29 Or, nourish.
  4. Luke 23:31 Or, green tree. That is, Jesus.
  5. Luke 23:31 That is, unbelieving Israel. If the Innocent One is made to die, what will happen to guilty Israel? The answer came in a.d. 70 when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem.

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