Luke 23:28
Good News Translation
Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.

New Revised Standard Version
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus turned to the women and said: Women of Jerusalem, don't cry for me! Cry for yourselves and for your children.

New American Bible
Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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Songs 1:5 Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

Songs 2:7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 3:5,10 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please. . . .

Songs 5:8,16 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love. . . .

Songs 8:4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

Context
The Crucifixion
27And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. 28But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children. 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.…
Cross References
Luke 23:27
And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.

Luke 23:29
For 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.

Revelation 1:7
Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him: and they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen.

Luke 23:27
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