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;
46. for strangers shall reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine shall they beget their children:
47. and they that traffick traffick to become a spoil: the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,