²¹ For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.^(A)

²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect^(B) those days will be shortened.

² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup^(A) that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.^(B) Judah^(C) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³ On that day, when all the nations^(D) of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock^(E) for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure^(F) themselves.