World English Bible

Luke 23:30

“Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.”

Verse in context — Luke 23

But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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.

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

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?

There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

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