Luke 21:22-23

Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem

²² for these are _l days of _m vengeance, to fulfill _n all that is written. ²³ _o 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 _p wrath against this people.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 34:8
   For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
   Isaiah 63:4
   For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.
   Hosea 9:7
   The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 18:7 - 8
   And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 1:22
   All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 23:29
   For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!
   
5. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 2:16
   By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!