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.
34. In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
35. Hear now these things, and understand them, you⌃ servants of the Lord.
36. Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: disbelieve not the things whereof the Lord speaks.
37. Behold, the evils draw near, and are not slack.
38. Like as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draweth near, within two or three hours doleful pains compass her womb, and when the child comes forth from the womb, there shall be no tarrying for a moment:
39. even so shall not the evils be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall groan, and sorrows shall take hold of it on every side.
40. O my people, hear my word: make you ready to the battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
41. He that selleth, let him be as he that fleeth away: and he that buys, as one that will lose:
42. he that occupieth merchandise, as he that has no profit by it: and he that builds, as he that shall not dwell therein:
43. he that sows, as if he should not reap: so also he that pruneth the vines, as he that shall not gather the grapes:
44. they that marry, as they that shall get no children; and they that marry not, as the widowed.
45. Inasmuch as they that labor labor in vain;