14. “The day is coming when you will see the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing where he should not be.” (Reader, pay attention!) “Then those in Judea must flee to the hills.
15. A person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack.
16. A person out in the field must not return even to get a coat.
17. How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing mothers in those days.
18. And pray that your flight will not be in winter.
19. For there will be greater anguish in those days than at any time since God created the world. And it will never be so great again.
20. In fact, unless the Lord shortens that time of calamity, not a single person will survive. But for the sake of his chosen ones he has shortened those days.