Luke 21:11-35

¹¹grete mouyngis of erthe schulen be bi placis, and pestilencis, and hungris, and dredis fro heuene, and grete tokenes schulen be.

¹²But bifore alle these thingis thei schulen sette her hoondis on you, and schulen pursue, bitakynge in to synagogis and kepyngis, drawynge to kyngis and to iusticis, for my name;

¹³but it schal falle to you in to witnessyng.

¹⁴Therfor putte ye in youre hertis, not to thenke bifore, hou ye schulen answere; for Y schal yyue to you mouth and wisdom,

¹⁵to whiche alle youre aduersaries schulen not mowe ayenstonde, and ayenseie.

¹⁶And ye schulen be takun of fadir, and modir, and britheren, and cosyns, and freendis, and bi deeth thei schulen turmente of you;

¹⁷and ye schulen be in haate to alle men for my name.

¹⁸And an heere of youre heed schal not perische;

¹⁹in youre pacience ye schulen welde youre soulis.

²⁰But whanne ye schulen se Jerusalem ben enuyround with an oost, thanne wite ye, that the desolacioun of it schal neiye.

²¹Thanne thei that ben in Judee, fle to the mountans; and thei that ben in the mydil of it, gon awei; and thei that ben in the cuntreis, entre not in to it.

²²For these ben daies of veniaunce, that alle thingis that ben writun, be fulfillid.

²³And wo to hem, that ben with child, and norischen in tho daies; for a greet diseese schal be on the erthe, and wraththe to this puple.

²⁴And thei schulen falle bi the scharpnesse of swerd, and thei schulen be led prisoneris in to alle folkis; and Jerusalem schal be defoulid of hethene men, til the tymes of naciouns be fulfillid.

²⁵And tokenes schulen be in the sunne, and the mone, and in the sterris; and in the erthe ouerleiyng of folkis, for confusioun of sown of the see and of floodis;

²⁶for men schulen wexe drye for drede and abidyng that schulen come to al the world; for vertues of heuenes schulen be mouyd.

²⁷And thanne thei schulen se mannys sone comynge in a cloude, with greet power and maieste.

²⁸And whanne these thingis bigynnen to be maad, biholde ye, and reise ye youre heedis, for youre redempcioun neiyeth.

²⁹And he seide to hem a liknesse, Se ye the fige tre, and alle trees,

³⁰whanne thei bryngen forth now of hem silf fruyt, ye witen that somer is nyy;

³¹so ye, whanne ye seen these thingis to be don, wite ye, that the kyngdom of God is nyy.

³²Treuli Y seie to you, that this generacioun schal not passe, til alle thingis be don.

³³Heuene and erthe schulen passe, but my wordis schulen not passe.

³⁴But take ye heede to you silf, lest perauenture youre hertis be greuyd with glotony, and drunkenesse, and bisynessis of this lijf, and thilke dai come sodein on you; for as a snare it schal come on alle men,

³⁵that sitten on the face of al erthe.