18. The beginning of sorrows, and there shall be great mournings; the beginning of famine, and many shall perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils, and all shall tremble! what shall they do in all this when the evils shall come?
19. Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish! they are sent as scourges for amendment.
20. But for all these things they shall not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
21. Behold, food shall be so good cheap upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.
22. For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the famine, shall the sword destroy.
23. And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be left desolate, and the cities thereof shall be cast down.
24. There shall be no husbandman left to till the earth, and to sow it.
25. The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
26. The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for in all places there shall be a great forsaking:
27. for one man shall desire to see another, or to hear his voice.
28. For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
29. As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there be left three or four olives,
30. or as when a vineyard is gathered there be some clusters left by them that diligently seek through the vineyard;
31. even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword.
32. And the earth shall be left desolate, and the fields thereof shall be for briers, and her ways and all her paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep shall pass therethrough.
33. The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.