 | Louis Perroy - 1922 - 336 ˹éÒ
...climb Calvary, with more sadness but none the less authority, He stated: "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us. For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?" (Luke 23 : 30, 31).... | |
 | Kenneth S. Wuest - 1961 - 624 ˹éÒ
...did not bare, and the breasts which did not afford nourishment. Then they shall begin to be saying to the mountains, Fall upon us, and to the hills, cover us; because since they are doing these things in a green tree, what shall it be in a dry tree? 32-38 And... | |
 | Charles Le Gai Eaton, Gai Eaton - 1985 - 242 ˹éÒ
...is already familiar to the Christian, who reads in St Luke's Gospel of the day 'when they begin to say to the mountains, fall upon us, and to the hills, cover us', and who learns from the Book of Revelations that 'in those days shall men seek death and shall not... | |
 | Bernardo (Santo, (), Bernardus Claraevallensis (svetnik.), Bernard of Clairvaux, G R Evans, Jean Leclercq, Ewert Cousins - 1987 - 296 ˹éÒ
...is always killing. Who can grant that they die once and not allow that they die forever? Those who say to the mountains, "Fall upon us" and to the hills, "cover us" (Lk 23:30), what is it they wish to end but death, or else avoid through the kindness of death? It... | |
 | Saint Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino - 1989 - 401 ˹éÒ
...the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed. ' Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall upon us,' and to the hills, "Cover us!' " (Lk 23:28-30). And at the end, the sentence of the Judge will be pronounced, as he says, "Come, blessed... | |
 | Andy Gaus - 1991 - 508 ˹éÒ
...sterile, for the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.' Then they will start saying to the mountains, 'Fall upon us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us up,' and if they do that when the wood is still green, what will they do by the time it dries? " Now they... | |
 | George R. Szews, Gabe Huck - 1999 - 47 ˹éÒ
...'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.' At that time people will say to the mountains, 'Fall upon us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?" Reader 2: Now... | |
 | Liturgy Training Publications - 1999 - 553 ˹éÒ
...are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.' "At that time people will say to the mountains, 'Fall upon us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' for if these things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Now two others,... | |
 | Sean Finnegan - 2000 - 616 ˹éÒ
...and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not given suck. Then they shall begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us, and to the hills: Cover us." LUKE 23:27-30 A reading from the book of Lamentations My eyes have failed with weeping, my soul is... | |
 | David Pierce - 2000 - 1351 ˹éÒ
...down grade. It would be well if we took the warning betimes, before we shall have reason to cry out to the mountains, 'Fall upon us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us.' There is, I repeat, one Name, and one only, in which we can recover ourselves and find salvation, and... | |
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Then shall they begin to say to the mountains : Fall upon us ; and to the hills : Cover us. For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other malefactors led with Him to be put to death. 
