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"But if you do
not heed me and do not keep all these commandments, if you reject
my precepts and spurn my decrees, refusing to obey all my
commandments and breaking my covenant, then I, in turn, will give
you your deserts. I will punish you with terrible woes - with
wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow
your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop. I will
turn against you, till you are beaten down before your enemies and
lorded over by your foes. You will take to flight though no one
pursues you. If even after this you do not obey me, I will
increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold, to break your
haughty confidence. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron,
and your soil as hard as bronze, so that your strength will be
spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no
fruit. If then you become defiant in your unwillingness to obey
me, I will multiply my blows another sevenfold, as your sins
deserve." [LEV 26:14-21]
For fire went forth from Heshbon and a blaze from the city of
Sihon; It consumed the cities of Moab and swallowed up the high
places of the Arnon. Woe to you, O Moab! You are ruined, O people
of Chemosh! He let his sons become fugitives and his daughters be
taken captive by the Amorite king Sihon. [NUM 21:28-29]
"Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and
angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a
'no-people'; with a foolish nation I will anger them. For by my
wrath a fire is enkindled that shall rage to the depths of the
nether world, Consuming the earth with its yield, and licking with
flames the roots of the mountains. I will spend on them woe upon
woe and exhaust all my arrows against them: Emaciating hunger and
consuming fever and bitter pestilence, And the teeth of wild
beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding
in the dust." [DEUT 32:21-24]
The Philistines, hearing the noise of shouting, asked,
"What can this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews
mean?" On learning that the ark of the LORD had come into the
camp, the Philistines were frightened. They said, "Gods have
come to their camp." They said also, "Woe to us! This
has never happened before. Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the
power of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the
Egyptians with various plagues and with pestilence. Take courage
and be manly, Philistines; otherwise you will become slaves to the
Hebrews, as they were your slaves. So fight manfully!" [1SAM
4:6-9]
"Woe to the nations that rise against my people! the Lord
Almighty will requite them; in the day of judgment he will punish
them" [Taken from JDTH 16:17]
Eleazar, who was called Avaran; and Jonathan, who was called
Apphus. When he saw the sacrileges that were being committed in
Judah and in Jerusalem, he said: "Woe is me! Why was I born
to see the ruin of my people and the ruin of the holy city, and to
sit idle while it is given into the hands of enemies, and the
sanctuary into the hands of strangers?" [1MACC 2:5-7]
But what is man's lot from God above, his inheritance from the
Almighty on high? Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and woe
for evildoers? Does he not see my ways, and number all my
steps? [JOB 31:2-4]
Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor.
If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion. Woe to the
solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up.
Where a lone man may be overcome, two together can resist. A
three-ply cord is not easily broken. [ECCL 4:9-10,12]
Woe to you, O land, whose king was a servant, and whose princes
dine in the morning! [ECCL 10:16]
Woe to craven hearts and drooping hands, to the sinner who
treads a double path! [SIRACH 2:12]
Woe to the faint of heart who trust not, who therefore will
have no shelter! [SIRACH 2:13]
Woe to you who have lost hope! what will you do at the
visitation of the LORD? [SIRACH 2:14]
Woe to you, O sinful men, who forsake the law of the Most High.
[SIRACH 41:8]
Jerusalem is crumbling, Judah is falling; for their speech and
their deeds are before the LORD, a provocation in the sight of his
majesty. Their very look bears witness against them; their sin
like Sodom they vaunt, They hide it not. Woe to them! they deal
out evil to themselves. [ISA 3:8-9]
Happy the just, for it will be well with them, the fruit of
their works they will eat. Woe to the wicked man! All goes ill,
with the work of his hands he will be repaid. [ISA 3:10-11]
Woe to you who join house to house, who connect field with
field, Till no room remains, and you are left to dwell alone in
the midst of the land! [ISA 5:8]
Woe to those who demand strong drink as soon as they rise in
the morning, And linger into the night while wine inflames them!
With harp and lyre, timbrel and flute, they feast on wine; But
what the LORD does, they regard not, the work of his hands they
see not. [ISA 5:11-12]
Woe to those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at
sin as if with cart ropes! [ISA 5:18]
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change
darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter
into sweet, and sweet into bitter! [ISA 5:20]
Woe to those who are wise in their own sight, and prudent in
their own esteem! [ISA 5:21]
Woe to the champions at drinking wine, the valiant at mixing
strong drink! To those who acquit the guilty for bribes, and
deprive the just man of his rights! [ISA 5:22-23]
In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high
and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the
temple. Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings:
with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet,
and with two they hovered aloft. "Holy, holy, holy is the
LORD of hosts!" they cried one to the other. "All the
earth is filled with his glory!" At the sound of that cry,
the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke.
Then I said, "Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of
unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes
have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" Then one of the
seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with
tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it.
"See," he said, "now that this has touched your
lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged." [ISA 6:1-7]
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive
decrees, Depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my people's
poor of their rights, Making widows their plunder, and orphans
their prey! What will you do on the day of punishment, when ruin
comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you
leave your wealth, Lest it sink beneath the captive or fall
beneath the slain? For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his
hand is still outstretched! [ISA 10:1-4]
Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath. [ISA 10:5]
These lift up their voice in acclaim; from the sea they
proclaim the majesty of the LORD: "For this, in the
coastlands, give glory to the LORD! In the coastlands of the sea,
to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel!" From the end of
the earth we hear songs: "Splendor to the Just One!" But
I said, "I am wasted, wasted away. Woe is me! The traitors
betray: with treachery have the traitors betrayed! Terror, pit,
and trap are upon you, inhabitant of the earth; He who flees at
the sound of terror will fall into the pit; He who climbs out of
the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high will
be opened and the foundations of the earth will shake." [ISA
24:14-18]
Woe to the majestic garland of the drunkard Ephraim, To the
fading blooms of his glorious beauty, on the head of him who is
stupefied with wine. Behold, the LORD has a strong one and a
mighty, who, like a downpour of hail, a destructive storm, Like a
flood of water, great and overflowing, levels to the ground with
violence; With feet that will trample the majestic garland of the
drunkard Ephraim. The fading blooms of his glorious beauty on the
head of the fertile valley Will be like an early fig before
summer: when a man sees it, he picks and swallows it at once. [ISA
28:1-4]
Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to
year, let the feasts come round. But I will bring distress upon
Ariel, with mourning and grief. You shall be to me like Ariel, I
will encamp like David against you; I will encircle you with
outposts and set up siege works against you. Prostrate you shall
speak from the earth, and from the base dust your words shall
come. Your voice shall be like a ghost's from the earth, and your
words like chirping from the dust. [ISA 29:1-4]
Woe to those who would hide their plans too deep for the LORD!
Who work in the dark, saying, "Who sees us, or who knows
us?" Your perversity is as though the potter were taken to be
the clay: As though what is made should say of its maker, "He
made me not!" Or the vessel should say of the potter,
"He does not understand." [ISA 29:15-16]
Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who carry out
plans that are not mine, who weave webs that are not inspired by
me, adding sin upon sin. They go down to Egypt, but my counsel
they do not seek. They find their strength in Pharaoh's protection
and take refuge in Egypt's shadow; Pharaoh's protection shall be
your shame, and refuge in Egypt's shadow your disgrace. [ISA 30:1-3]
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who depend upon
horses; Who put their trust in chariots because of their number,
and in horsemen because of their combined power, But look not to
the Holy One of Israel nor seek the LORD! [ISA 31:1]
Woe, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed!
When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; when wearied
with betraying, you will be betrayed. [ISA 33:1]
I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being
and create woe; I, the LORD, do all these things. [ISA 45:7]
Woe to him who contends with his Maker; a potsherd among
potsherds of the earth! Dare the clay say to its modeler,
"What are you doing?" or, "What you are making has
no hands?" Woe to him who asks a father, "What are you
begetting?" or a woman, "What are you giving birth
to?" Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, his maker:
You question me about my children, or prescribe the work of my
hands for me! It was I who made the earth and created mankind upon
it; It was my hands that stretched out the heavens; I gave the
order to all their host. [ISA 45:9-12]
At that time it will be said of this people and of Jerusalem,
"From the glaring heights through the desert a wind comes
toward the daughter of my people." Not to winnow, not to
cleanse, does this wind from the heights come at my bidding; And I
myself now pronounce sentence upon them. See! like storm clouds he
advances, like a hurricane his chariots; Swifter than eagles are
his steeds: "Woe to us! we are ruined." Cleanse your
heart of evil, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long must
your pernicious thoughts lodge within you? [JER 4:11-14]
You now who are doomed, what do you mean by putting on purple,
bedecking yourself with gold, Shading your eyes with cosmetics,
beautifying yourself in vain? Your lovers spurn you, they seek
your life. Yes, I hear the moaning, as of a woman in travail, like
the anguish of a mother with her first child- The cry of daughter
Zion gasping, as she stretches forth her hands: "Ah, woe is
me! I sink exhausted before the slayers!" [JER 4:30-31]
For thus says the LORD of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a
siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for
punishment; nought but oppression within her! As the well gushes
out its waters, so she gushes out her wickedness. Violence and
destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows. [JER
6:6-7]
Woe is me! I am undone, my wound is incurable; Yet I had
thought: if I make light of my wound, I can bear it. My tent is
ruined, all its cords are severed. My sons have left me, they are
no more: no one to pitch my tent, no one to raise its curtains.
Yes, the shepherds were stupid as cattle, the LORD they sought
not; Therefore they had no success, and all their flocks were
scattered. [JER 10:19-21]
Your adulteries, your neighings, your shameless prostitutions:
On the hills in the highlands I see these horrible crimes of
yours. Woe to you, Jerusalem, how long will it yet be before you
become clean! [JER 13:27]
Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and
contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet all
curse me. [JER 15:10]
Whoever remains in this city shall die by the sword or famine
or pestilence. But whoever leaves and surrenders to the besieging
Chaldeans shall live and have his life as booty. For I have turned
against this city, for its woe and not for its good, says the
LORD. It shall be given into the power of the king of Babylon who
shall burn it with fire. [JER 21:9-10]
Woe to him who builds his house on wrong, his terraces on
injustice; Who works his neighbor without pay, and gives him no
wages. Who says, "I will build myself a spacious house, with
airy rooms," Who cuts out windows for it, panels it with
cedar, and paints it with vermilion. Must you prove your rank
among kings by competing with them in cedar? Did not your father
eat and drink? He did what was right and just, and it went well
with him. Because he dispensed justice to the weak and the poor,
it went well with him. Is this not true knowledge of me? says the
LORD. [JER 22:13-16]
Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my
pasture, says the LORD. Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of
Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have
scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for
them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds. I myself
will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands to which I
have driven them and bring them back to their meadow; there they
shall increase and multiply. I will appoint shepherds for them who
will shepherd them so that they need no longer fear and tremble;
and none shall be missing, says the LORD. [JER 23:1-4]
The prophet Jeremiah answered the prophet Hananiah in the
presence of the priests and all the people assembled in the house
of the LORD, and said: Amen! thus may the LORD do! May he fulfill
the things you have prophesied by bringing the vessels of the
house of the LORD and all the exiles back from Babylon to this
place! But now, listen to what I am about to state in your hearing
and the hearing of all the people. From of old, the prophets who
were before you and me prophesied war, woe, and pestilence against
many lands and mighty kingdoms. But the prophet who prophesies
peace is recognized as truly sent by the LORD only when his
prophetic prediction is fulfilled. Thereupon the prophet Hananiah
took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, broke it, and
said in the presence of all the people: "Thus says the LORD:
'Even so, within two years I will break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from off the neck of all the
nations.'" At that, the prophet Jeremiah went away. [JER 28:5-11]
Thus says the LORD: Only after seventy years have elapsed for
Babylon will I visit you and fulfill for you my promise to bring
you back to this place. For I know well the plans I have in mind
for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare, not for woe! plans
to give you a future full of hope. When you call me, when you go
to pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you
will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart, you will
find me with you, says the LORD, and I will change your lot; I
will gather you together from all the nations and all the places
to which I have banished you, says the LORD, and bring you back to
the place from which I have exiled you. [JER 29:10-14]
Concerning Moab, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel: Woe to Nebo, it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disgraced and
captured, Disgraced and overthrown is the stronghold: Moab's glory
is no more. Evil they plan against Heshbon: "Come, let us put
an end to her as a people." You, too, Madmen, shall be
reduced to silence; behind you stalks the sword. [JER 48:1-2]
Woe to you, O Moab, you are ruined, O people of Chemosh! Your
sons are taken into exile, your daughters into captivity. But I
will change the lot of Moab in the days to come, says the LORD.
Thus far the judgment on Moab. [JER 48:46-47]
The LORD opens his armory and brings forth the weapons of his
wrath; For the Lord GOD of hosts has work to do in the land of the
Chaldeans. Come upon her from every side, open her granaries, Pile
up her goods in heaps and doom it, leave not a remnant... Woe to
them! their day has come, the time of their punishment. [Taken
from JER 50:25-27]
The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dance has turned into
mourning; The garlands have fallen from our heads: woe to us, for
we have sinned! Over this our hearts are sick, at this our eyes
grow dim [Taken from LAM 5:15-17]
As for you, son of man, obey me when I speak to you: be not
rebellious like this house of rebellion, but open your mouth and
eat what I shall give you. It was then I saw a hand stretched out
to me, in which was a written scroll which he unrolled before me.
It was covered with writing front and back, and written on it was:
Lamentation and wailing and woe! [EZEK 2:8-10]
Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to those prophets who are fools,
who follow their own spirit and have seen no vision. [EZEK 13:3]
Woe to those who sew bands for everyone's wrists and make veils
for every size of head so as to entrap their owners. Do you think
to entrap the lives of my people, yet keep yourselves alive? [EZEK
13:18]
Then after all your evildoing - woe, woe to you! says the Lord
GOD - you raised for yourself a platform and a dais in every
public place. At every street corner you built a dais for yourself
to use your beauty obscenely [Taken from EZEK 16:23-25]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: You, son of man, would
you judge, would you judge the bloody city? Then make known all
her abominations, and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the city
which sheds blood within herself so that her time has come, and
which has made idols for her own defilement. By the blood which
you shed you have been made guilty, and with the idols you made
you have become defiled; you have brought on your day, so that the
end of your years has come. Therefore I make you an object of
scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all foreign lands.
Those near you and those far off shall deride you because of your
foul reputation and your great perversity. [EZEK 22:1-5]
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, a
pot containing rust, whose rust has not been removed. For the
blood she shed is in her midst; she poured it on the bare rock;
she did not pour it out on the earth, to be covered with dust. To
work up my wrath, to excite my vengeance, she put her blood on the
bare rock, not to be covered. Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD:
I, too, will heap up a great bonfire [Taken from EZEK 24:6-9]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, prophesy
against the shepherds of Israel, in these words prophesy to them
(to the shepherds): Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the shepherds
of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not
shepherds, rather, pasture sheep? [EZEK 34:1-2]
Woe to them, they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, they have
sinned against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies
against me. They have not cried to me from their hearts when they
wailed upon their beds; For wheat and wine they lacerated
themselves, while they rebelled against me. Though I trained and
strengthened their arms, yet they devised evil against me. They
have again become useless, like a treacherous bow. Their princes
shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues;
thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt. [HOSEA 7:13-16]
The glory of Ephraim flies away like a bird: no birth, no
carrying in the womb, no conception. Were they to bear children, I
would slay the darlings of their womb. Even though they bring up
their children, I will make them childless, till not one is left.
Woe to them when I turn away from them! [HOSEA 9:11-12]
Woe to those who turn judgment to wormwood and cast justice to
the ground! [AMOS 5:7]
Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how grievous your sins:
Oppressing the just, accepting bribes, repelling the needy at the
gate! Therefore the prudent man is silent at this time, for it is
an evil time. Seek good and not evil, that you may live; Then
truly will the LORD, the God of hosts, be with you as you claim!
Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then
it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will have pity on the
remnant of Joseph. Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of
hosts, the Lord: In every square there shall be lamentation, and
in every street they shall cry, Alas! Alas! They shall summon the
farmers to wail and professional mourners to lament, And in every
vineyard there shall be lamentation when I pass through your
midst, says the LORD. Woe to those who yearn for the day of the
LORD! What will this day of the LORD mean for you? Darkness and
not light! [AMOS 5:12-18]
Woe to the complacent in Zion, to the overconfident on the
mount of Samaria, Leaders of a nation favored from the first, to
whom the people of Israel have recourse! Pass over to Calneh and
see, go from there to Hamath the great, and down to Gath of the
Philistines! Are you better than these kingdoms, or is your
territory wider than theirs? You would put off the evil day, yet
you hasten the reign of violence! [AMOS 6:1-3]
Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their
couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies
within their power. They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and
they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his
inheritance. Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am planning
against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your
necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time of
evil. [MICAH 2:1-3]
Woe to the bloody city, all lies, full of plunder, whose
looting never stops! [NAHUM 3:1]
The rash man has no integrity; but the just man, because of his
faith, shall live. Wealth, too, is treacherous: the proud,
unstable man - He who opens wide his throat like the nether world,
and is insatiable as death, Who gathers to himself all the
nations, and rallies to himself all the peoples - Shall not all
these take up a taunt against him, satire and epigrams about him,
to say: Woe to him who stores up what is not his: how long can it
last! he loads himself down with debts. Shall not your creditors
rise suddenly? Shall not they who make you tremble awake? You
shall become their spoil! Because you despoiled many peoples all
the rest of the nations shall despoil you; Because of men's blood
shed, and violence done to the land, to the city and to all who
dwell in it. [HAB 2:4-8]
Woe to him who pursues evil gain for his household, setting his
nest on high to escape the reach of misfortune! [HAB 2:9]
Woe to him who builds a city by bloodshed, and establishes a
town by wickedness! [HAB 2:12]
Woe to you who give your neighbors a flood of your wrath to
drink, and make them drunk, till their nakedness is seen! [HAB
2:15]
Woe to him who says to wood, "Awake!" to dumb stone,
"Arise!" Can such a thing give oracles? See, it is
overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no life breath in it.
[HAB 2:19]
Woe to you who dwell by the seacoast, to the Cretan folk! The
word of the LORD is against you, I will humble you, land of the
Philistines, and leave you to perish without an inhabitant! [ZEPH
2:5]
Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted, to the tyrannical
city! She hears no voice, accepts no correction; In the LORD she
has not trusted, to her God she has not drawn near. [ZEPH 3:1-2]
Woe to my foolish shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the
sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; Let his arm wither
away entirely, and his right eye be blind forever! [ZECH 11:17]
Then he began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty
deeds had been done, since they had not repented. "Woe to
you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done
in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago
have repented in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be
more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for
you." [MT 11:20-22]
"Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things
must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!" [MT 18:7]
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You
lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter
yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter."
[MT 23:13]
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You
traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens
you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves." [MT
23:15]
"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'If one swears by the
temple, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the
temple, one is obligated.' Blind fools, which is greater, the
gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred? And you say, 'If
one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by
the gift on the altar, one is obligated.' You blind ones, which is
greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? One
who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it; one
who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it;
one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him
who is seated on it." [MT 23:16-22]
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You
pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the
weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity.
(But) these you should have done, without neglecting the others.
Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!"
[MT 23:23-24]
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You
cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of
plunder and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the
inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean." [MT
23:25-26]
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You
are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside,
but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth.
Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are
filled with hypocrisy and evildoing." [MT 23:27-28]
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You
build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the
righteous, and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our
ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets'
blood.' Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the
children of those who murdered the prophets; now fill up what your
ancestors measured out! You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can
you flee from the judgment of Gehenna? Therefore, behold, I send
to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will
kill and crucify, some of them you will scourge in your synagogues
and pursue from town to town, so that there may come upon you all
the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of
Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you
murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Amen, I say to you,
all these things will come upon this generation." [MT 23:29-36]
"When you see the desolating abomination spoken of through
Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let the reader
understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, a
person on the housetop must not go down to get things out of his
house, a person in the field must not return to get his cloak. Woe
to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days. Pray that
your flight not be in winter or on the sabbath, for at that time
there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the
beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be. And if those
days had not been shortened, no one would be saved; but for the
sake of the elect they will be shortened. If anyone says to you
then, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'There he is!' do not
believe it. False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they
will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that
were possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told it to you
beforehand." [MT 24:15-25]
"The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but
woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be
better for that man if he had never been born." Then Judas,
his betrayer, said in reply, "Surely it is not I,
Rabbi?" He answered, "You have said so." [MT 26:24-25]
"When you see the desolating abomination standing where he
should not (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must
flee to the mountains, (and) a person on a housetop must not go
down or enter to get anything out of his house, and a person in a
field must not return to get his cloak. Woe to pregnant women and
nursing mothers in those days. Pray that this does not happen in
winter. For those times will have tribulation such as has not been
since the beginning of God's creation until now, nor ever will be.
If the Lord had not shortened those days, no one would be saved;
but for the sake of the elect whom he chose, he did shorten the
days. If anyone says to you then, 'Look, here is the Messiah!
Look, there he is!' do not believe it. False messiahs and false
prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders in order to
mislead, if that were possible, the elect. Be watchful! I have
told it all to you beforehand." [MK 13:14-23]
When it was evening, he came with the Twelve. And as they
reclined at table and were eating, Jesus said, "Amen, I say
to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with
me." They began to be distressed and to say to him, one by
one, "Surely it is not I?" He said to them, "One of
the Twelve, the one who dips with me into the dish. For the Son of
Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by
whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man
if he had never been born." [MK 14:17-21]
"But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your
consolation." [LK 6:24]
"But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe
to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep." [LK 6:25]
"Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors
treated the false prophets in this way." [LK 6:26]
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the
mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment
than for you." [LK 10:13-14]
"Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of
every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to
love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the
others." [LK 11:42]
"Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues
and greetings in marketplaces." [LK 11:43]
"Woe to you! You are like unseen graves over which people
unknowingly walk." [LK 11:44]
And he said, "Woe also to you scholars of the law! You
impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not
lift one finger to touch them." [LK 11:46]
"Woe to you! You build the memorials of the prophets whom
your ancestors killed. Consequently, you bear witness and give
consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and
you do the building. Therefore, the wisdom of God said, 'I will
send to them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill
and persecute' in order that this generation might be charged with
the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the
world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who died
between the altar and the temple building. Yes, I tell you, this
generation will be charged with their blood!" [LK 11:47-51]
"Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of
knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those
trying to enter." [LK 11:52]
He said to his disciples, "Things that cause sin will
inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur.
It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck
and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these
little ones to sin." [LK
17:1]
"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that
its desolation is at hand. Then those in Judea must flee to the
mountains. Let those within the city escape from it, and let those
in the countryside not enter the city, for these days are the time
of punishment when all the scriptures are fulfilled. Woe to
pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for a terrible
calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon
this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken
as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled
underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are
fulfilled." [LK 21:20-24]
"And yet behold, the hand of the one who is to betray me
is with me on the table; for the Son of Man indeed goes as it has
been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed."
And they began to debate among themselves who among them would do
such a deed. [LK 22:21-23]
If I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for
an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not
preach it! [1COR 9:16]
Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned
themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and perished in
the rebellion of Korah. [JUDE 1:11]
When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, a third of the sun, a
third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a
third of them became dark. The day lost its light for a third of
the time, as did the night. Then I looked again and heard an eagle
flying high overhead cry out in a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe
to the inhabitants of the earth from the rest of the trumpet
blasts that the three angels are about to blow!" [RV 8:12-13]
The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses ready for
battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold;
their faces were like human faces, and they had hair like women's
hair. Their teeth were like lions' teeth, and they had chests like
iron breastplates. The sound of their wings was like the sound of
many horse-drawn chariots racing into battle. They had tails like
scorpions, with stingers; with their tails they had power to harm
people for five months. They had as their king the angel of the
abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon. The
first woe has passed, but there are two more to come. [RV 9:7-12]
The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and be glad
and exchange gifts because these two prophets tormented the
inhabitants of the earth. But after the three and a half days, a
breath of life from God entered them. When they stood on their
feet, great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a
loud voice from heaven say to them, "Come up here." So
they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies looked on. At
that moment there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city
fell in ruins. Seven thousand people were killed during the
earthquake; the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of
heaven. The second woe has passed, but the third is coming soon. [RV
11:10-14]
The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil
and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth,
and its angels were thrown down with it. Then I heard a loud voice
in heaven say: "Now have salvation and power come, and the
kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the
accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our
God day and night. They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and
by the word of their testimony; love for life did not deter them
from death. Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in
them. But woe to you, earth and sea, for the Devil has come down
to you in great fury, for he knows he has but a short time." [RV
12:9-12]
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