Study Desk

And, as they led him away, they laid hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the country, - they laid on him the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

And there was following him a great throng of the people, and of women, who were smiting themselves and lamenting him.

But, turning towards them, Jesus said - Daughters of Jerusalem! Do not weep for me; but, for yourselves, be weeping, and for your children.

For lo! days are coming, in which they will say - Happy the barren! even the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

Then, will they begin to say - unto the mountains, Fall upon us! and unto the hills, Cover us!

Because if, in moist wood, these things, they are doing, - in, the dry, what shall happen?