◄ Luke 23:30 ►
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Good News Translation
That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Hide us!'

New Revised Standard Version
Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

Contemporary English Version
At that time everyone will say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" They will say to the hills, "Hide us!"

New American Bible
At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us.

Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

Hosea 10:8 And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.

Revelation 6:16 And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Revelation 9:6 And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.

Context
The Crucifixion
…29For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck. 30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us. 31For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?…
Cross References
Isaiah 2:19
And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Hosea 10:8
And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.

Luke 23:31
For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?

Revelation 6:16
And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Luke 23:29
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