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29 The time will come when people will say, "Happy are the women who have no children or who have never had a child."

30 Then people will begin to say to the big hills, "Fall on us." They will say to the small hills, "Hide us."

31 If this is what people do when the wood is new, what will they do when it is old?'

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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