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Luke 23:30

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23:30Then they will begin to say to the mountains,73 ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’74

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  1. 73 The figure of crying out to the mountains ‘Fall on us!’ (appealing to creation itself to hide them from God’s wrath), means that a time will come when people will feel they are better off dead (Hos 10:8).
  2. 74 An allusion to Hos 10:8 (cf. Rev 6:16).

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then

“ ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”

and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’

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CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and plead with the hills, ‘Bury us.’

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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