¹⁹ And ^(A)alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

²⁹ For behold, ^(A)the days are coming when they will say, ^(B)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ ^30 (C)Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

^23 (A)Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and ^(B)wrath against this people.

⁵³ And ^(A)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^(B)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. ⁵⁴ The man who is the most tender and refined among you will ^(C)begrudge food to his brother, to ^(D)the wife he embraces,^[a] and to the last of the children whom he has left, ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, ^(E)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. ^56 (F)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,^[b] to her son and to her daughter,

¹⁷ And ^(A)alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! ¹⁸ Pray that it may not happen in winter.

^4 (A)Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan ^(B)came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.