¹ And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying,

² `Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou hast said unto him: A young lion of nations thou hast been like, And thou [art] as a dragon in the seas, And thou comest forth with thy flowings, And dost trouble the waters with thy feet, And thou dost foul their flowings.

³ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.

⁴ And I have left thee in the land, On the face of the field I do cast thee out, And have caused to dwell upon thee every fowl of the heavens, And have satisfied out of thee the beasts of the whole earth.

⁵ And I have put thy flesh on the mountains, And filled the valleys [with] thy hugeness,

⁶ And watered the land with thy flowing, From thy blood -- unto the mountains, And streams are filled from thee.

⁷ And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.

⁸ All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

⁹ And I have vexed the heart of many peoples, In My bringing in thy destruction among nations, Unto lands that thou hast not known.

¹⁰ And I have made many peoples astonished at thee, And their kings are afraid at thee with trembling, In My brandishing My sword before their faces, And they have trembled every moment, Each for his life -- in the day of thy fall.

¹¹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: A sword of the king of Babylon entereth thee,

¹² By swords of the mighty I cause thy multitude to fall, The terrible of nations -- all of them, And they have spoiled the excellency of Egypt, And destroyed hath been all her multitude.

¹³ And I have destroyed all her beasts, From beside many waters, And trouble them not doth a foot of man any more, Yea, the hoofs of beasts trouble them not.

¹⁴ Then do I cause their waters to sink, And their rivers as oil I cause to go, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁵ In My making the land of Egypt a desolation, And desolated hath been the land of its fulness, In My smiting all the inhabitants in it, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah.

¹⁶ A lamentation it [is], and they have lamented her, Daughters of the nations do lament her, For Egypt, and for all her multitude, they lament her, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

¹⁷ And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying,

¹⁸ `Son of man, Wail for the multitude of Egypt, And cause it to go down, It -- and the daughters of honourable nations, Unto the earth -- the lower parts, With those going down to the pit.

¹⁹ Than whom hast thou been more pleasant? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.

²⁰ In the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, [To] the sword she hath been given, They drew her out, and all her multitude.

²¹ Speak to him do the gods of the mighty out of the midst of sheol, With his helpers -- they have gone down, They have lain with the uncircumcised, The pierced of the sword.

²² There [is] Asshur, and all her assembly, Round about him [are] his graves, All of them [are] wounded, who are falling by sword,

²³ Whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, And her assembly is round about her grave, All of them wounded, falling by sword, Because they gave terror in the land of the living.

²⁴ There [is] Elam, and all her multitude, Round about [is] her grave, All of them wounded, who are falling by sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised unto the earth -- the lower parts, Because they gave their terror in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.

²⁵ In the midst of the wounded they have appointed a bed for her with all her multitude, Round about him [are] her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For their terror was given in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit, In the midst of the pierced he hath been put.

²⁶ There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude, Round about him [are] her graves, All of them uncircumcised, pierced of the sword, For they gave their terror in the land of the living,

²⁷ And they lie not with the mighty, Who are falling of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to sheol with their weapons of war, And they put their swords under their heads, And their iniquities are on their bones, For the terror of the mighty [is] in the land of the living.

²⁸ And thou, in the midst of the uncircumcised art broken, And dost lie with the pierced of the sword.

²⁹ There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, Who have been given up in their might, With the pierced of the sword, They with the uncircumcised do lie, And with those going down to the pit.

³⁰ There [are] princes of the north, All of them, and every Zidonian, Who have gone down with the pierced in their terror, Of their might they are ashamed, And they lie uncircumcised with the pierced of the sword, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.

³¹ Then doth Pharaoh see, And he hath been comforted for all his multitude, The pierced of the sword -- Pharaoh and all his force, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

³² For I have given his terror in the land of the living, And he hath been laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised, With the pierced of the sword -- Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

¹ And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple,

² and Jesus said to them, `Do ye not see all these? verily I say to you, There may not be left here a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'

³ And when he is sitting on the mount of the Olives, the disciples came near to him by himself, saying, `Tell us, when shall these be? and what [is] the sign of thy presence, and of the full end of the age?'

⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,

⁵ for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall lead many astray,

⁶ and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all [these] to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

⁷ `For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;

⁸ and all these [are] the beginning of sorrows;

⁹ then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

¹⁰ and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

¹¹ `And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray;

¹² and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

¹³ but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

¹⁴ and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.

¹⁵ `Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)

¹⁶ then those in Judea -- let them flee to the mounts;

¹⁷ he on the house-top -- let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

¹⁸ and he in the field -- let him not turn back to take his garments.

¹⁹ `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

²⁰ and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter, nor on a sabbath;

²¹ for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be.

²² And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

²³ `Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here [is] the Christ! or here! ye may not believe;

²⁴ for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

²⁵ Lo, I did tell you beforehand.

²⁶ `If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;

²⁷ for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

²⁸ for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

²⁹ `And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

³⁰ and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;

³¹ and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

³² `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer [is] nigh,

³³ so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh -- at the doors.

³⁴ Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

³⁶ `And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;

³⁷ and as the days of Noah -- so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

⁴⁰ Then two men shall be in the field, the one is received, and the one is left;

⁴¹ two women shall be grinding in the mill, one is received, and one is left.

⁴² `Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

⁴³ and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

⁴⁴ because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

⁴⁵ `Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

⁴⁶ Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

⁴⁷ verily I say to you, that over all his substance he will set him.

⁴⁸ `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,

⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.