For the days shall come upon youi, that youri enemies shall cast a trench about youi, and compass (go around, encircle; encompass) youi round, and keep youi in on every side,
But when you2f shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Dani’el [God is Judge] the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let them that be in Y’hudah [praised] flee to the mountains:
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
“He is the Anti-Moshiach [Messiah] and he is the abomination which desolates which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place. Let the one who reads understand”.
For what reason seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,