"'As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

For the

"Immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.

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The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

"But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;