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Luke 23:30

World English Bible

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 other translations

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

Luke 23:30 · American Standard Version

Luke 23:30 in context

  1. 28But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
  2. 29For 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.’
  3. 30Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
  4. 31For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
  5. 32There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.