Hosea 9:13

9:13 Just as lion cubs are born predators, ¹ 

so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

Hosea 9:16

9:16 Ephraim will be struck down ²  –

their root will be dried up;

they will not yield any fruit.

Even if they do bear children,

I will kill their precious offspring.

Matthew 24:19

24:19 Woe ³  to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Mark 13:17

13:17 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Luke 21:23

21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ⁴  on the earth and wrath against this people.

Luke 23:29

23:29 For this is certain: ⁵  The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’ ⁶ 

Luke 23:1

Jesus Brought Before Pilate

23:1 Then ⁷  the whole group of them rose up and brought Jesus ⁸  before Pilate. ⁹ 

Colossians 1:26

1:26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.

¹ tc The MT is corrupt in 9:13. The BHS editors suggest emending the text to follow the LXX reading. See D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:250-51.

² tn Or perhaps, following the plant metaphor, “will be blighted” (NIV similar).

³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁴ sn Great distress means that this is a period of great judgment.

⁵ tn Grk “For behold.”

⁶ tn Grk “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed!”

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ sn Pilate was the Roman prefect (procurator) in charge of collecting taxes and keeping the peace. His immediate superior was the Roman governor (proconsul) of Syria, although the exact nature of this administrative relationship is unknown. Pilate’s relations with the Jews had been rocky (v. 12). Here he is especially sensitive to them.