Luke 21:19-27

¹⁹By your endurance you will win yourselves life.

²⁰As soon, however, as you see Jerusalem surrounded by armed camps, then you may know that the hour of her desecration is at hand.

²¹Then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains, those who are in Jerusalem must leave at once, and those who are in the country places must not go into it.

²²For these are to be the days of vengeance, when all that scripture says will be fulfilled.

²³Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.

²⁴They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be taken prisoners to every land, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles, until their day is over — as it will be.

²⁵There will be signs, too, in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth despair among the nations, in their dismay at the roar of the sea and the surge.

²⁶People's hearts will fail them through dread of what is coming upon the world; for the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.

²⁷Then will be seen the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.