33 The earth will be left desolate, and its fields will be taken over by thornbushes, and its roads and all its paths will sprout thorns, because sheep won’t pass on them.
34 Virgins will mourn, having no bridegrooms; women will mourn, having no husbands; their daughters will mourn, having no support.
35 Their grooms will be killed in war, and their husbands will perish from famine.
36 Listen to these things and understand them, you servants of the Lord.
37 Here is the Lord’s word. Accept it. Don’t disbelieve the things that the Lord speaks about.
38 Look, the disasters are approaching and won’t be delayed.
39 A woman in the ninth month of pregnancy, when the hour for giving birth arrives, experiences great pains around her womb for two or three hours beforehand, but when the infant is ready to come forth from the womb she doesn’t delay for a moment.