3 Whenever they say, "Shalom and Bitachon!" then sudden churban (destruction) will come upon them like the chevlei leydah (birth pangs) of the isha with a baby in her womb. And they can certainly not escape.
4 But you, Achim b'Moshiach, are not in choshech that the Yom should overtake you like a ganav.
5 For all of you are Bnei Ohr and Bnei Yom; we are not of the Lailah nor of the Choshech.
6 Therefore, let us not "sleep" as the rest, but let us keep awake with zililut da'as (sober-mindedness).
7 For the ones sleeping sleep balailah, and the ones indulging in shichrut (drunkenness) indulge in shichrut balailah.
8 But we, being Bnei Yom, let us be bnei zililut da'as (sons of sober-mindedness), having clothed ourselves with the choshen (breastplate) of emunah and ahavah (agape) and as a KOVAH (helmet, YESHAYAH 59:17) the tikvah of Yeshu'at Eloheynu.
9 Because Hashem did not appoint us to charon af (the burning wrath) but to the attainment of Yeshu'at Eloheinu through Adoneinu, Moshiach Yehoshua.