Luke 23:29

Jewish women considered barrenness a misfortune and children a blessing (cf. Psalms 127:3). Jesus announced that in the future the opposite would be true. They would see their children suffer and wish they had never been born. The context of Jesus’ quotation from Hosea 10:8 is a passage describing Israel’s idolatry and God’s consequent judgment of her for it. Jesus was predicting God’s judgment here.