Woe

Famous quotes containing the word woe:

    The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.
    Bible: New Testament Matthew 26:24.

    Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:7.

    Other translations use “temptations.”

    Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
    But grief returns with the revolving year.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)