Discovery BoxLuke 23:29-30 
Context23:29 For this is certain: 1 The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’ 2 23:30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 3 ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ 4
1 tn Grk “For behold.”
2 tn Grk “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed!”
sn Normally barrenness is a sign of judgment, because birth would be seen as a sign of blessing. The reversal of imagery indicates that something was badly wrong.
3 sn 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).
