Text -- Luke 23:30 (NET)

23:30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 23:30

¹ sn The figure of crying out to the mountains ‘Fall on us!’ (appealing to creation itself to hide them from God’s wrath), means that a time will come when people will feel they are better off dead (Hos 10:8).

² sn An allusion to Hos 10:8 (cf. Rev 6:16).