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Luke 23:30
Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
Luke 23:30 · World English Bible
Luke 23:30 in other translations
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'
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In context
27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
32 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.
33 When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
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