NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 30

Luke 23:30

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Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’

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Luke 23:30 in context

Luke 23:27–33

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.’

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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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  1. Hosea 10:8

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